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Santa Claus and Elves Make Annual Visit to UVA Health Children’s Patients
"I research postpartum depression and how to manage psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and during the postpartum time period. I partner with other basic scientists to try to understand the underlying biology. My research has identified two epigenetic biomarker of postpartum depression, which are about 80% accurate in predicting who’s at risk for this potentially devastating illness."
—Jennifer L. Payne, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences