The HMS community recognized a leader in the field of women’s mental health this summer, honoring Lee Cohen as the first incumbent of the Edmund N. and Carroll M. Carpenter Professorship in Psychiatry in the Field of Women’s Mental Health at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs Nancy Tarbell, who led the June 28 celebration at the Harvard Club of Boston, praised Cohen as “an outstanding member of our faculty and a truly deserving inaugural incumbent for this great honor.”
Cohen, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Women’s Mental Health at Mass General, is a pioneer in perinatal and reproductive psychiatry. His interests along the spectrum of psychiatric disorders associated with female reproductive function include psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the post-partum period, pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, the peri and postmenopausal depressive syndromes and the management of depression in patients who do not respond to treatment.
Cohen completed his medical internship at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, in Brighton, Mass. and his residency in psychiatry at Mass General. After completing a fellowship there in psychopharmacology in the Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, he founded the Center for Women’s Mental Health. His recognitions include the Outstanding Achievement Award for Research from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society and the Mentorship Award for Exceptional Mentorship of Women Faculty from the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General.
The Carpenter Professorship was established in honor of the late Edmund Carpenter and his wife, Carroll, the founding co-chair of the MGH Leadership Council for Psychiatry, who attended the celebration. Also participating were Mass General President Peter Slavin, professor of health care policy, and Jerrold Rosenbaum, psychiatrist-in-chief at Mass General and the Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry.
