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Perinatal Mental Health in the 21st century

Dear colleagues, dear students,

We would like to invite you to an upcoming lecture, organized in the student-led Medicine as a Science guest lecture cycle. We are very glad that associate professor Claudia Klier, MD from Medical University of Vienna accepted our invitation.

Professor Klier will connect via MS Teams, on the 11th of January at 18:00 and talk about her research and experience in a lecture on ‘Perinatal Mental Health in the 21st Century’. More information on how to connect will be available in the event page on Facebook. The lecture will be recorded and available on-demand afterward.

Doctor Klier is an adult and child psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She graduated from the Medical University of Vienna and completed her residency training at University of Innsbruck, Austria and University of Vienna. She spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York City with Professor Myrna Weissman where she started her research career. She returned to the United States twice to work at Drexel University, Philadelphia, with Professor Pamela Geller, College of Arts and Sciences. She completed a sabbatical in Australia, where she worked with Prof Paul Amminger, ORYGEN, University of Melbourne, in the field of prevention in

youth mental health.

In 2013, after returning from sabbatical she was appointed Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Medical University of Vienna and is Deputy Medical Director, University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her research interests are perinatal psychiatry (especially child outcomes), psychopharmacology in pregnancy, and pediatric psychosomatics. She is a founding member of the German marce branch and also active in the Association of European Psychiatry AEP and the World Psychiatric Association, WPA. Together with Christiane Hornstein from Germany she edited a DVD on postpartum depression for midwives and other primary health care workers to enhance knowledge about diagnosis and treatment options of perinatal mental disorders. She works as a consultant for the City of Vienna to improve maternal mental health services. As a goal she would like to see a mother-and baby-unit open in Vienna in an integrated service ranging from home treatment to day-clinic to a unit. She takes a specific interest in how to prevent killings and abandonment of newborns.

We are looking forward to meeting you online. In the case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via our facebook page.

Lecture is funded by budget "Prostredky na podporu internacionalizace - Ukazatel D" of Division of International and Public Relations of 3FM.

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