Maria Muzik, M.D., M.Sc.

Dr. Muzik is a clinician, scholar and educator, whose work is grounded in reproductive health and justice and mental health equity across the childbearing years.  Professionally, she is faculty and Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Michigan Medicine and serves as Medical Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Services at Michigan Medicine.  In this function she oversees perinatal psychiatric care delivered within psychiatry and also integrated in obstetrics, family medicine and pediatrics. Within Michigan Medicine she also co-directs Zero To Thrive, a multidisciplinary program in psychiatry aiming to promote health and resiliency for families from pregnancy through early childhood with research, education, community partnership and service. She is the past president of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Muzik holds a master’s degree in Clinical Research and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the impact of stress, trauma and mental illness in the context of childbearing on caregiving and the developing parent-child relationships, and how to support families in overcoming psychological and environmental adversity. She has published over 150 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, edited books, and her work is funded by the National Institute of Health, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services-Administration for Children and Families, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid in Michigan.