Leah C. Susser, MD, is a reproductive psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her clinical work, academic work, and teaching focus on increasing access to mental health care for women across reproductive stages, including women with symptoms across the menstrual cycle, in the perinatal period, and during the perimenopausal transition. She completed medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2012 and psychiatry residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Weill Cornell Medical College in 2016. Throughout residency, she specialized in reproductive psychiatry through the Weill Cornell Women’s Program. After completing residency in 2016, she established the reproductive psychiatry clinic at NYPH/Weill Cornell Westchester Behavioral Health Center. Dr. Susser is now Program Director of the cross-campus NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine Ambulatory Reproductive Psychiatry Program. This program offers specialized mental health care to women during the perinatal period, with menstrual cycle related psychiatric symptoms, and around the perimenopausal period.
Dr. Susser is dedicated to teaching trainees about reproductive mental health. She is co-director of the Weill Cornell reproductive psychiatry psychology postdoctoral fellowship program. She is director of the journal club for the Weill Cornell Women’s Program Rounds, where she teaches psychiatry residents and fellows about critically reading perinatal mental health literature and the limitations of studies of pregnant women. Dr. Susser has published numerous articles in the field of reproductive psychiatry. She also gives talks to expand recognition of reproductive psychiatry, including presentations to the community, at conferences, and within Weill Cornell Medical College.
