Meet Our Speaker

Professor/ Director

Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology PhD program Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Professor 

Obstetrics/gynecology

Drexel’s College of Medicine

Dr. Pamela Geller is a professor and the Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology PhD program in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University. She is also a research professor of obstetrics/gynecology in Drexel’s College of Medicine. Dr. Geller has studied women’s health issues for over 30 years. She received her MS and PhD in clinical psychology from Kent State University and completed a NIH postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. With research and clinical interests in perinatal mental health, her work focuses on the psychological aspects of adverse and traumatic events surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, postpartum depression, and infant NICU hospitalization. Dr. Geller is co-founder and co-director of Mother Baby Connections, an intensive outpatient mental health program at Drexel for pregnant and postpartum women experiencing anxiety and depression and their infants. With a visiting professorship in neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she and her colleagues are addressing the experiences of parents with an infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with ongoing projects relevant to parental distress and adjustment, and nurse education. Dr. Geller is the PI on an NIH R21/R33 grant to develop a mobile health application for universal mental health screening and support for NICU parents. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Perinatal Association. Dr. Geller also serves on the Executive Council and chairs the Research Committee of the National Network of NICU Psychologists. Among peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications, Dr. Geller is an editor of the Health Psychology volume of the Handbook of Psychology, as well as the book, Women’s Health Psychology, both published by Wiley. She has presented her work nationally and internationally and has been featured on BBC Radio programs.