Dr. Hutner is a Harvard- and Columbia-trained psychiatrist, co-founder, and educator in the emerging medical specialty of women’s reproductive mental health. She is one of a small group of psychiatrists in New York City with extensive expertise in reproductive psychiatry, which focuses on the mental health needs of women and birthing people before, during, and after pregnancy. She has particular expertise in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and in the psychiatric issues of high-risk pregnancies and infertility.
Dr. Hutner is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University, and she received her M.D. in 2003 from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed adult psychiatry residency training at Harvard at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital, where she was one of the chief residents. She then completed a two year fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Columbia University, where she furthered her interests in reproductive mental health and medical student education. Dr. Hutner is also a candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Dr. Hutner was the Associate Director of the Women and Reproductive Mental Health Program at Columbia, where she created and directed the first dedicated consult service for inpatient obstetrics and was the psychiatric liaison to the high-risk Maternal Fetal Medicine practice. Dr. Hutner was also a consulting psychiatrist to the Columbia Intensive Outpatient Treatment program, which focuses on young adults with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. As Director of Education for the Women’s Program at Columbia, she oversaw all trainee initiatives in women’s mental health, and she was one of the associate residency training directors at NYU, where she is on the voluntary teaching faculty. Dr. Hutner was the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association Leadership Fellowship, the MGH Thomas Hackett Award, and the Laughlin Fellowship, which is awarded yearly to an elite group of residents nationwide likely to have a significant impact on the field of psychiatry. Dr. Hutner served on the APA Scientific Program Committee from 2010-2015. In 2016, she was honored to be inducted into the highly selective American College of Psychiatrists, which has a total membership of fewer than one thousand psychiatrists nationwide. She was named Top Doctor in both 2020 and 2021.
