A program developed at UMass Medical School to ensure that women with depression during or after pregnancy get the help they need is being replicated across the country, according to an NPR Morning Edition report on the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms (MCPAP for Moms).
Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, associate professor of psychiatry, obstetrics & gynecology, and population & quantitative health sciences, and director of the Division of Women’s Mental Health; and Tiffany A. Moore Simas, MD, MPH, professor of obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and population & quantitative health sciences, and vice chair of obstetrics & gynecology, explain how MCPAP for Moms has helped thousands of women in Massachusetts.
