Marlene P. Freeman, M.D.
As of September 2008, Dr. Freeman joined the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Program, Center for Women’s Mental Health.
She completed undergraduate work at University of Wisconsin and medical school at
Northwestern University Medical School. She completed residency at the Harvard Longwood
Psychiatry Residency Program. After residency, she completed a research fellowship in the
Biological Psychiatry Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, focused on
bipolar disorder treatment research.
Dr. Freeman established the University of Arizona’s Women’s Mental Health Program in 2000
and directed the program for seven years. She developed a research program in perinatal
depression with grant support from NARSAD, the National Institute of Mental Health, the U.S.
FDA, the Arizona Disease Control Research Commission, and the Institute for Mental Health
Research. These grants supported research in perinatal depression. Her main clinical and
research work is focused on mood disorders across the reproductive lifespan in women,
including psychopharmacology and integrative medicine interventions.
She serves as Vice Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry since 2007, after
serving as Deputy Editor since 2003. She chaired a subcommittee on Omega-3 Fatty Acids in
Psychiatry, on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). She serves on the APA’s
Major Depressive Disorder Treatment Guideline Revision workgroup. She currently chairs the
APA’s Task Force on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.