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Fountain House Associates
Third Annual Spring Breakfast
between the sheets
sex and mental health
sponsored by
a woman’s perspective...
Fountain House Associates
Host Committee
Speakers
Chairs Kate Allen • Donya Bommer
Kathleen Kocatas • Jennifer Oken
Katie Tozer • Katie Zorn
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Vice-Chairs Jennifer Carlston
Nicole Cunningham • Chiara Edmands
Linda Garnett • Heather Georges
Sarah Simmons Goldstein
ShoshaNna Gruss • Kamie Lightburn
Katherine Lipton • Laura McVey
Dara O’Hara • Sarah von Maltzahn
C. Neill Epperson, MD
Shari Lusskin, MD
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Le Cirque
151 East 58th Street
Tickets: $75
To purchase tickets or to make a donation, please visit
www.fountainhouse.org/upcoming-events or contact
Robyn Marks at 212.582.0341, ext. 1288 or
rmarks@fountainhouse.org
All proceeds go to the Associates Scholarship Fund
in memory of Danny Zorn
C. Neill Epperson, MD
Dr. Epperson is Director of the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness where she is also CoDirector of the new Penn Center for the Study of Sex and Gender in Affective Disorders at the Perelman
School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Epperson leads a team of clinicians and
researchers who focus on the assessment, causes and treatment of cognitive and mood disorders across
the female life span. Dr. Epperson is a member of the American College of Psychiatrists and the American
College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health
Office of Research on Women’s Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of
Mental Health, and the National Institute on Aging. The overarching goal of Dr. Epperson’s research is
to determine the impact of women’s hormones and stress on brain structure and function as it relates
to affective and cognitive disorders, which occur more frequently in women. Dr. Epperson’s program at
Penn has been named by MORE Magazine as the best place in the United States for the treatment of
depression in women over 40.
Shari Lusskin, MD
Dr. Lusskin is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive
Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She founded the Reproductive Psychiatry
Program at the NYU School of Medicine where she was on the faculty from 1993-2012. She is the Director
of Psychopharmacologic Agents for the Reproductive Toxicology Center, a Non-Profit Foundation and
has served as a reviewer for a number of scientific journals. She has lectured around the world on topics in
Women’s Mental Health to both professional and lay audiences and serves as a member of the President’s
Advisory Council of Postpartum Support International.