Texas Children’s Hospital has announced the establishment of the Maureen Hackett Endowed Chair for Reproductive Psychiatry with a $2 million gift from Houston philanthropists Maureen and Jim Hackett. The endowed chair will benefit The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women. Dr. Lucy Puryear, medical director of The Women’s Place, is the inaugural appointee of the endowed chair. She is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in women’s reproductive mental health. She is also an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and with the Menninger department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. The purpose of the endowed chair is to support treatment and research initiatives that address the mental health issues unique to women and to aid in eradicating the stigma associated with mental illness.
The Women’s Place is one of a handful of programs of its kind in the nation offering collaborative treatment of women’s reproductive mental health issues within a women’s hospital setting. Located on the third floor of the Pavilion for Women, the center is designed to address issues such as postpartum mood or anxiety disorders, mother-baby attachment difficulties, severe premenstrual symptoms and emotional changes related to menopause.
This is fantastic news!! Dr. Puryear is amazing, and I know she has done and will continue to do wonderful things in Texas to support women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
