Diana Barnes

I have been in private practice specializing in women's reproductive mental health for over 20 years. I am a past president of Postpartum Support International and currently sit on their President's Advisory Council as well as being a member of the training faculty of Maternal Mental Health Now in Los Angeles and 2020 Mom, the statewide collaborative. In 2016 I was appointed as the mental health consultant for the California Commission on the Status of Maternal Mental Health. In addition to private practice, I am frequently retained as an expert witness by legal counsel on criminal cases involving maternal mental illness. I am the editor and a contributing author of a reference text called "Women's Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan" and humbled to have received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 presented by the Eli Lilly Foundation for my work in the field of child-bearing-related illness.