Bobbie Posmontier, PhD, CNM, PMHNP-BC, FAAN

Professor

Evelyn Lauder Chair, Psychiatric Mental Health

Email: bp2015@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: Brookdale Campus, W805

Dr. Bobbie Posmontier is the inaugural Evelyn Lauder Chair in Psychiatric Mental Health and a tenured professor at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has over 40 years of clinical experience as a nurse-midwife and psychiatric nurse practitioner and a strong commitment to health equity working with underserved populations.

Dr. Posmontier leads an interdisciplinary team of investigators to address improving perinatal mental health outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. Her current NIH funded project involves developing a digital health platform to help improve mental health outcomes among women experiencing postpartum depression and sub-optimal mother-infant interaction. Dr. Posmontier has a strong record of scholarship and expertise in women’s mental health and serves as reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed publications. She also serves as a NIH reviewer for research proposal applications submitted through NIMHD and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Posmontier founded and co-directs an evidence-based perinatal mental health intensive outpatient program called Mother Baby Connections at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she facilitates clinical services and research, as well as trains perinatal mental health providers. She also has expertise as an Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) trainer and Infant Massage trainer and has trained and supervised numerous nurses, psychology students, medical residents, medical students, and social workers in the United States and Israel.

Dr. Posmontier earned her BSN from Thomas Jefferson University and completed her MSN in child and adolescent psychiatry, post-master's teaching certificate, post-master's psychiatric nurse practitioner certificate, post-master's nurse midwifery certificate, PhD, and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She also earned a Master Psychopharmacology certificate from the Neuroscience Education Institute and is trained in several modalities of psychotherapy. Dr. Posmontier continues to work clinically to inform her research as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Jefferson Health, where she cares for patients across the lifespan and specializes in the care of women with postpartum depression and their infants.

Education

Post-Master's Certificate, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Health Disparities Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 2008

PhD, Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

Post-Master's Certificate, Teaching, University of Pennsylvania, 1999

Post-Master's Certificate, Nurse Midwifery, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

MSN, CNS Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 1986

BSN, Thomas Jefferson University, 1982

Honors and Awards

Gloria Donnelly Mentorship Award, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, 2019

Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2018

Nurse Faculty Scholar Semi-Finalist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012