Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD
Prof. Emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Natalie Rasgon is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the founder and director of the Stanford Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health, and the co-founder of the Psychopathology and Allostatic load across the Life Span (PALS) Network. Dr. Rasgon is an internationally known thought leader and research in neuroscience in women’s mental health. Her lab also focuses on investigating the neuroscience of stress, specifically biomarkers of cellular aging in executives and gender differences in stress response. She has served as PI on more than 40 research studies and is a member of the board of directors of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC). She has edited two books on neuroendocrinology of diseases of the brain and is an executive co-editor for the Textbook on Mood Disorders to be published by the American Psychological Association. Dr. Rasgon has authored more than 280 scientific journal articles, chapters and abstracts. She has mentored 46 trainees and 34 junior faculty and has served on more than 35 PhD dissertation committees. She is Editor-in-Chief of Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, a member of the editorial boards for 32 journals and is a graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program at Stanford. In 2015 Dr. Rasgon was recipient of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Lila Wallis Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to women’s health.