Katherine L. Wisner MD, MS

Katherine L. Wisner MD, MS, is Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Epidemiology and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and director of the Women’s Behavioral HealthCARE program at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) of the University Pittsburgh Medical Center. She also serves as an investigator at the Magee-Womens Research Institute. Dr. Wisner obtained an M.S. in Nutrition and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University, followed by a categorical pediatric internship and general and child psychiatry residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and WPIC.

She completed as a post-doctoral fellow in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, a fellowship in Professional Ethics at Case Western Reserve University in 1996, and a certificate for the Physician Leadership and Management Program at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wisner’s research focuses on the psychiatric treatment of women of childbearing age. She is recognized as an expert in the treatment of depression during pregnancy and the postpartum period.