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Veerle Bergink

Veerle Bergink MD, PhD

Psychiatry
New York, New York, United States of America

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Dr. Bergink is the director of Mount Sinai’s Women’s Mental Health Program, and is internationally renowned as an expert in the treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period. She a professor at the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Bergink specializes in mental health stability during pregnancy and the postpartum period, as well as the treatment of bipolar disorder. From 2004 to 2018, she treated patients at Erasmus University hospital in Rotterdam, where she led the Acute Inpatient Unit, the Mother-Baby Unit, and the Center of Excellence in Perinatal Psychiatry. She then moved to New York City to lead Mount Sinai’s Women’s Mental Health Program.

Her research career started in 2008 when she established a prospective postpartum psychosis study, currently the largest first-onset postpartum psychosis and mania cohort in the world. She has defined a highly effective clinical treatment algorithm for treatment of the acute phase and also for the prevention of postpartum relapse. Moreover, her research has provided intriguing evidence for an underlying immunological pathophysiology of postpartum depression, mania and psychosis.

Dr. Bergink has published extensively in top-tier scientific journals. Two papers were listed as top 10 most important clinical studies in in the entire field of psychiatry, selected by the publishing group of the NEJM. She received prestigious awards, such as the price for the best research within all faculty in the last three years at Erasmus University and the Ramaer medal from the Netherlands Psychiatric Association, awarded to the person who contributed the most to the field of clinical and scientific Psychiatry over the last two years.
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