Simple and Practical welcomes new Editorial Board member

Simple and Practical Mental Health is delighted to announce the addition of Professor Vivien K Burt, MD, PhD to our Editorial Board.

Dr. Burt is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

She is also Founder and Co-Director of the Women’s Life Center at the Resnick UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Dr. Burt has authored numerous articles and book chapters in the field of women’s psychiatry, has coauthored The Clinical Manual for Women’s Mental Health, published by the American Psychiatric Press in May 2008 and is the first author of the chapter on Women’s Mental Health in the American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry, published in 2014.

She has been honored with an Outstanding House Staff Teaching Award from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, both a President’s Award and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Southern California Psychiatric Society, and the Distinguished Service Award of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, the 2008 Andre Boivin Professorship of the Motherisk Program of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

The focus of her activities includes projects in women’s mental health with a particular focus on psychiatric illnesses associated with reproductive transitions.

A full list of members of the Editorial Board of Simple and Practical Mental Health can be found HERE