Director, Women’s Mental Health Program
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Zachary N. Stowe, MD, is Director of the Women’s Mental Health Program, and directs the Electrophysiology Research Laboratory at Emory University. Dr. Stowe is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and completed his residency in psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. After completing a fellowship in psychopharmacology at Emory, Dr. Stowe established the Women’s Mental Health Program. The focus Dr. Stowe’s clinical research is the use of psychotropic medications during pregnancy and lactation, the psychobiology of mood disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period, and the impact of maternal mental illness on fetal and neonatal exposures. In addition, he leads an active laboratory research involving stress and medication in rodents with differing behavioral paradigms and/or altered metabolic capacity (e.g. enzymes, binding proteins).

Dr. Stowe has given numerous professional presentations, including a special conference on women’s mental health at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has received a number of honors and awards including the Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award from the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association and the American Psychiatric Association/SmithKline Beecham Young Faculty Award. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill, a board member of Depression After Delivery, and is a member of NIH study section.