At the Women’s Health 2020 conference in June, Lee Cohen, MD, the director of the MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health, was honored as the recipient of the prestigious Vivian Pinn Award for Outstanding Research in Women’s Health and delivered the Vivian Pinn Research Keynote Lecture at the conference: Perinatal Psychiatry: Lessons Learned over Two Decades.
Previous recipients of this award include Noel Bairey Merz, Linda Giudice, Nanette Santoro, Laura Esserman, Karla Kerlikowske, Teresa Woodruff, Kathrine Wisner, and Kathy Rexrode.
Dr. Vivian Pinn was the first full-time director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health. Under her leadership, this office led the implementation of the first NIH research policies promoting the inclusion of women in clinical research. Dr. Pinn developed national strategic plans for women’s health research and established many new research funding initiatives and career development programs.
Dr. Lee Cohen is Director of The Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health and Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Philanthropy and Department Communications at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the Edmund and Carroll Carpenter Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a national and international leader in the field of women’s mental health and was among the founders of the field of Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry. His work spans the domains of research, teaching and clinical care in the area of treatment of mood and anxiety disorders with subspecialty interest in psychiatric disorders associated with female reproductive function. These include psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period, depression in midlife women and issues related to infertility and mental health. The research which he conducts and oversees has helped to inform the care of patients who suffer from psychiatric illness.
