Catherine Ruth Friedman MD

Dr. Catherine R. Friedman, MD, has recently joined the staff in the Division of Women’s Behavioral Health, Department of Medicine, at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. She is seeing patients at the Center for Women’s Behavioral Health in Providence.

Dr. Friedman received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, did graduate work at The Rockefeller University in New York, and earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed an internship in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California San Francisco, and a residency in general adult psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. She is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Society for Addiction Medicine, the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, and the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Friedman will provide care at Women & Infants’ Day Hospital, where she will provide treatment to pregnant and postpartum women suffering from depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders. She will also provide assessment and medication treatment at Project Link and the Center for Women’s Behavioral Health outpatient program.

Her research and clinical interests include perinatal psychiatry, women with addiction, addiction in pregnancy, and attachment issues.