Dr. Nicole Cirino is a psychiatrist who has worked in the field of Reproductive Psychiatry since 2002, as the field was first forming. She specializes in clinical care, education, advocacy and research for women with perinatal, perimenstrual and perimenopausal psychiatric conditions, as well as disorders of female sexual dysfunction. This includes postpartum depression, perinatal loss, sexual -trauma related conditions, postpartum psychosis, perinatal OCD, PMDD and other mental health conditions that occur during the reproductive life span.
She is a Professor in both the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. She is director of the Division of Reproductive Psychiatry. She teaches clinical aspects of Reproductive Psychiatry to more than 800 medical clinicians a year and serves in leadership roles on many national organizations including Postpartum Support International (PSI), American Psychiatric Association (APA), International Society of Reproductive Psychiatrists (ISRP) and International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH).
She is grew up in Salem, Oregon; earned her Bachelor’s degree in Literature at Santa Clara University; her medical degree at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine; and finished residency and fellowship at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. She recently relocated to Houston, Texas to lead the Reproductive Psychiatry program at Baylor College of Medicine, within Texas Children’s Hospital Pavilion for Women.