Sara L Kornfield, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Maternal Wellness Initiative, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Clinical Director, Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness, Psychiatry Department, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Psychiatry

Contact information
3535 Market Street, 3rd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2157461255
Fax: 2155738881
Lab: 2157461255
Education:
B.A. (Psychology)
Barnard College, Columbia University , 2003.
M.S. (Clinical Psychology)
Drexel University, 2008.
Ph.D. (Clinical Health Psychology)
Drexel University, 2010.
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Selected Publications

Wisniewski, K., Henry, N., Flanagan, A. Y., Popoola, A., Weaver, N., Iglio, L., Alexandre, C.,Myers, D., Tieu, T., Waller, R., Kornfield, S. L., Gur, R. E., Momplaisir, F., & Njoroge, W. F. M.: Examining the Impact of the Syndemic on Black Birthing Individuals in the USA: A Systematic Review. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities February 2025.

White, L.K., Perlstein, S., Gorgone, A., Himes, M.M., Kornfield, S.L., Shanmugan, S. Weitz, E., Njoroge, W.F.M., Duncan, A.F., Burris, H.H., Laney, N., Gur, R.E., Waller, R.E., Chaiyachati, B.H.: Evidence for Missed Cases of Postpartum Depression Based on Pediatric Clinical Care Screenings. British Journal of Psychiatry 2025.

Keller, A. S., Sun, K. Y., Francisco, A., Robinson, H., Beydler, E., Bassett, D. S., Cieslak, M., Cui, Z., Davatzikos, C., Fan, Y., Gardner, M., Kishton, R., Kornfield, S. L., Larsen, B., Li, H., Linder, I., Pines, A., Pritschet, L., Raznahan, A., Roalf, D. R., … Shanmugan, S.: Reproducible Sex Differences in Personalized Functional Network Topography in Youth. British Journal of Psychiatry 2025.

Perlstein, S., Njoroge, W.F.M., White, S.K., Parish-Morris, J., Williams, A.I., Malone, K.S., Rodriguez, Y., Sun, S., Wisniewski, K., Popoola, A., Flum, M., Kornfield, S.L., Seidlitz, J., Chaiyachati, B.H., Barzilay, R., Gur, R.E., & Waller, R.: Characterizing Social Communication Difficulties in Young Children within a Longitudinal Ecological Systems Framework. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 2025.

Njoroge, W.F.M., Tieu, T., Eckhardt, D., Himes, M., Alexandre, C., Hall, Waynitra, Wisniewski, K., Popoola, A., Holloway, K., Rodriguez, Y., Kornfield, S.L., Momplaisir, F., Wang, X., Gur, R., Waller, R. : The Impact of the Pandemic on Mothers and Children, with a Focus on Syndemic Effects on Black Families: The "Prenatal to Preschool" Study Protocol. Frontiers in Psychiatry-Perinatal Psychiatry 14, January 2024 Notes: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1281666.

Lenze, S. N., McKay-Gist, K., Paul, R., Tepe, M., Mathews, K., Kornfield, S., Phillips, C., Smith, R., Stoermer, A., & Carter, E. B. : Elevating Voices, Addressing Depression, Toxic Stress, and Equity Through Group Prenatal Care: A Pilot Study. Health Equity 8(1): 87-95, 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2023.0160

Kaplan, K., Obasi, M., Kundra, L., Blaine, V., Purcell, F., Kornfield, S.L. : MotherSHIPP: An App in development for education and support of perinatal women with substance use disorders. Alternative Media/mHealth App 2024.

Waller, R., Paz, Y., Himes, M. M., White, L. K., Rodriguez, Y., Gorgone, A., Luby, J., Gerstein, E. D., Brady, R. G., Chaiyachati, B. H., Duncan, A., Barzilay, R., Kornfield, S. L., Burris, H. H., Seidlitz, J., Parish-Morris, J., Laney, N., Gur, R. E., & Njoroge, W. F. M. : Observations of Positive Parenting from Online Parent-Child Interactions at Age 1. Parenting, science and practice 24(1): 39-65, 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2023.2286454.

Tan, M. T., Darden, N., Peterson, K., Trout, K. K., Christ, L., Handley, S. C., Kornfield, S. L., Power, M. E., Montoya-Williams, D., Lewey, J., Gregory, E. F., Lorch, S. A., DeMauro, S. B., Levine, L. D., & Burris, H. H. : Bringing postpartum care to the NICU-An opportunity to improve health in a high-risk obstetric population. Journal of perinatology: official journal of the California Perinatal Association, Journal of Perinatology 43(1): 1-2, January 2023.

Hantsoo, L., Jagodnik K.M., Novick, A.M., Baweja, R., di Scalea, T.L., Ozerdem,A., McGlade E.C., Simeonova D.I., Dekel, S., Kornfield, S.L., Nazareth, M., Weiss, S.J. : The role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in depression across the female reproductive lifecycle: current knowledge and future directions. Frontiers in Endocrinology 14, 2023.

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