Margaret Altemus, MD

Associate Professor
Yale School of Medicine
West Haven, Connecticut

Margaret Altemus, MD is an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and director of women’s mental health services in Primary Care in the Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare System. Her research interests are neuroendocrinology with a focus on the impact of reproductive hormones and reproductive events on mood and anxiety disorders and stress response physiology. Dr. Altemus went to medical school at Georgetown University and did her psychiatry residency at Yale New-Haven Hospital. After residency she moved to the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health where she worked with patients with eating disorders and anxiety disorders. From 1996-2015 she directed the Women’s Mental Health Program at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Presentation(s):

• The Effect of Hyperandrogenism on Risk for PTSD in Women

  Friday, November 10, 2023
  9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST