Kara M. Brown MD

Dr. Kara Brown is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Psychiatrist at Brigham Psychiatric Specialties. She completed her medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, her psychiatry residency training at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and a women’s mental health fellowship here at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

She specializes in the treatment of psychiatric concerns across the reproductive lifespan with a particular interest in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She is also interested in racial disparities in mental health care and the intersection of anxiety disorders in women with pulmonary disease.