Adele C. Viguera, MD

Adele C. Viguera, MD, is the Associate Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Viguera received her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, and served her internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

The recipient of several honors and awards, Dr. Viguera is a recent recipient of an NIMH sponsored K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award on bipolar disorder and pregnancy as well as a NARSAD Young Investigators Award for her project on neonatal outcome following exposure to Lithium: What Happens to Lithium Babies? Her current research interests include the course and treatment of bipolar mood disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period and the effects of prenatal lithium exposure on infant development. Her work has been published in a number of scientific journals and books