Email

nicole.cirino2@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor

Obstetrics & Gynecology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US

Professor

Menninger Department of Psychiatry
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Addresses

PAVILION TOWER II (Clinic)

6620 MAIN STREET
Ste 1200
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-5281
Fax: (832) 825-9401

Education

BA from SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY

05/1995 - SANTA CLARA, California United States

MD from LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

05/1999 - MAYWOOD, Illinois United States

Residency at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

05/2003 - CHICAGO, Illinois United States

Fellowship at CHICAGO INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

05/2002 - CHICAGO, Illinois United States

Fellowship at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MCGRAW MEDICAL CENTER

05/2003 - CHICAGO, Illinois United States

Certifications

#47755

Texas Licensed Physician

Honors & Awards

• Division Director, Division of Reproductive Psychiatry

Baylor College of Medicine (09/2022)

Professional Statement

I have established my academic career as a clinician and educator in the field of reproductive psychiatry (also known as women’s mental health or perinatal psychiatry). I have gained institutional, regional, national, and international recognition in this field in part due to serving in innovative roles which increase education in the medical community and improve access to the treatment of maternal mental illness. Prior to joining Baylor College of Medicine 9/2022, I served as the founder and Division Chief of the Women’s Mental Health and Wellness Division at Oregon Health Science University’s (OHSU) Center for Women’s Health (CWH). There I carried a dual faculty appointment in the Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology and created three multi-specialty clinics and several new curricula. At the time I founded this division, there were less than 20 such academic programs/ divisions of Reproductive Psychiatry/Women’s Mental Health nationally. Prior to this appointment I was the founder and director of The Women’s Mental Health Program at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

As a faculty member at OHSU from 2007-2022 I provided the majority of direct clinical care, clinical leadership and education in the field of reproductive psychiatry at an institutional level. I led a division that turned into a thriving women’s mental health specialty practice serving over 5000 patient visits a year and was the only clinic of this nature in Oregon. After joining as faculty fulltime in 2013, I was promoted from Assistant Professor to Professor over the course of 9 years.

I continue to teach clinical aspects of reproductive psychiatry to more than 800 medical clinicians a year, including 5 different medical specialties. I serve on many national committees, holding leadership positions in most of the scientific organizations that I belong to, 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).

Over the past 8 years I expanded my clinical expertise in this field to also include nationally recognized expertise in female sexual medicine by obtaining certification through AASECT and ISSWSH. This enabled me to develop and co-direct the innovative new program, The Menopause and Sexual Medicine Program, and develop sexual medicine curriculum for medical students and residents in the Center for Women’s Health. As one of a handful of physicians who is also a Certified Sex Therapist (CST) in the country, I have developed curricula and programming in female sexual medicine to all levels of learners, from MS1 students to Primary Care faculty. I have also disseminated and developed curricula at the international level, working as a consultant and on international education committees in the field of reproductive psychiatry.

September of 2022 I was appointed to be the Division Director of Reproductive Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. Since that time I have received the rank of Professor. Some of the strengths of this nationally recognized division, of which I have the privilege to lead, includes a federally funded perinatal access line, an active Reproductive Psychiatry fellowship, and multiple collaborative clinical programs and opportunities for research within one of the leading hospitals in the country, Texas Children’s Hospital.

Memberships

Postpartum Support International

Chair, Hickman Research Award Committee

International Society of Reproductive Psychiatrists

Chair, Education Committee

International Society for the Study Women’s Sexual Health

• Member, Scientific Program Committee

American Psychiatric Association

member