Emma Robertson Blackmore is a psychologist who has spent the past 10 years in the United Kingdom working in clinical and academic settings with women with severe mental illness. Her special expertise is researching clinical and genetic aspects of puerperal psychosis and examining evidence-based risk factors for PPD. Dr. Robertson Blackmore completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Birmingham, England, and in the women’s health program of the University Health Network, researching women and postpartum mood disorders. She has recently been appointed to the faculty in the department of psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, where she will be specializing in perinatal psychiatry.