Dr. Madora’s Publications and Presentations

Media

Listen to Dr. Madora discuss psychiatric medications during the fertility journey on Reproductive Medicine Associates’ (RMA, a leading infertility treatment center) podcast Fertility Forward.

Learn more about Dr. Madora’s experience working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School along with her background, clinical approach, and research interests in Helping Mothers Become the Best Versions of Themselves.

Watch Dr. Madora discuss her paper on postpartum psychosis here

Publications

1.     Madora, Marlee J., Hallie S. Knopf, Michelle Prakash, Jasmine Kim, Meghana R. Medavaram, and Rubiahna L. Vaughn. "Postpartum Psychosis or Something Else?." The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders 25, no. 1 (2023): 44919.

 2. Soundararajan ,Sitara, Madora, Marlee, Vaughn, Rubiahna, Kauffman, Sarah. “Breastfeeding with Serious Mental Illness: An Approach to Ethical Mother-Baby Decision Making.” Accepted for Publication in Current Psychiatry in July 2023.

3.  Madora, Marlee, Rubiahna Vaughn. “Complex Trauma in the Perinatal Period: A Case Series and Review of the Literature.” Current Psychiatry. November 2022.

4.     Madora, Marlee. “Coping with a Coronavirus-Related Stillbirth”. A commentary piece.  American Journal of Psychiatry Resident’s Journal.  18.1 (2022): 11-12.

5.     Madora, Marlee, Scott Wetzler, Anita Jose, Peter Bernstein. “Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorders: Understanding the Obstetrical Care Provider’s Roles and Responsibilities”.  Maternal and Child Health Journal (2022): 1-6.

6.     Hutchison, Lisa, Anna M. Plichta, Yehuda Lerea, Marlee Madora, and H. Michael Ushay. "Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in an Adolescent Boy with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)." Psychosomatics 61.6 (2020): 739.

7.     Madora, Marlee, Janssen, Aron, Junewicz, Alexandra. “Seizure-like episodes, but is it really epilepsy?” Current Psychiatry: (2019) 18(8), 42-48.

8.     Madora, Marlee. "Book Review: Back to Balance: The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine."  American Journal of Medical Quality: (2019): 97-97.

Presentations

1.     Nichola R Haddad, Marlee Madora, Natalie Feldman, Jordan Rosen. “Metoclopramide-induced psychiatric illness: A Case Series of Three Perinatal Women.” Virtual Presentation at the European Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Annual Meeting, Wroclaw, Poland, June 15th, 2023.   

2.     Namita Arboleda, Marlee Madora, Rubiahna Vaughn. “Reproductive Justice Among the Serious Mentally Ill: An Increasing Concern in the post Roe vs. Wade Climate”. Poster presentation at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 22nd, San Francisco, CA, 2023.

3.     Marlee Madora, Steffanie Wright. “Capacity and Consent in Reproductive Healthcare” Family Planning and Women’s Mental Health Case Conference at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. May 4th, 2023

4.     Marlee Madora, Sitara Soundararajan, Rachel Noone.  “Peripartum ethical considerations in a pregnant psychotic patient.”

Poster presentation at the Psychiatric Research Institute Montefiore Einstein Research Day. May 26th, 2022. Bronx, New York.

Poster presentation at the European Association Psychosomatic Medicine Annual Conference. June 9th, 2022, Vienna, Austria

5.     Marlee Madora, Samantha Labib, Rubiahna Vaughn. “I woke up with my hands on his neck”- A Case Report of Perinatal Exacerbation of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Poster presentation at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 22nd, 2022, New Orleans, LA. 

6.     Ali Kalam, Marlee Madora, Michelle Prakash, Meghana Medavaram. ““I’m giving birth!” The neuropsychiatric presentation of a patient with Bartonella infection”. Poster presentation at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 22nd, 2022 New Orleans, LA.

7.     Marlee Madora, Rubiahna Vaughn. Perinatal Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Challenges & Opportunities for the C-L Psychiatrist. Virtual Poster presentation at the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting, November, 2021.

 8.     Marlee Madora: Management of comorbid heart disease and mental health conditions. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Department Meeting at Montefiore Medical Center, November 24th, 2021.

9.     Marlee Madora: Enmeshment in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.  Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Department Meeting at Montefiore Medical Center, November 2nd, 2021.  

10.  Marlee Madora, Lisa Hutchinson: Challenges to Youth Mental Health During the Pandemic: A Case of an Adolescent with Three Suicide Attempts during Coronavirus Lockdown. Virtual poster presentation at the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting, November, 2020.

 11.  Tia Powell, Alessandra Scalmati, Ana Ozdoba, Marlee Madora: Grief, Loss, and Meaning during the Coronavirus Pandemic.  Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds at Montefiore, April 23rd 2020.

12.  Marlee Madora, Mary O’Dowd, Adira Hulkower, Howard Forman: Conflict of Autonomy vs. Beneficence: When terminal cancer, psychosis, and aggression coincide. Poster presentation at the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine, 7th Annual Meeting. June 2019.

13.  Marlee Madora, James Plumb, Rickie Brawer, Barry Mann: Education as Prevention: Teaching Addiction to Urban-Minority Youth in Philadelphia. Sigma Xi Poster Presentation, Thomas Jefferson University. April 10th, 2018.

14.  Marlee Madora and Klores M.  Bridging the Gaps Program Project: Care with Dignity: A Patient-Centered Focus of Treatment of Vulnerable Populations.

Poster presentation at College of Physicians Public Health Poster Session. May 10th, 2016. Philadelphia, PA.

Poster presentation at College within a College Population Health Poster Session Symposium. November 10th, 2015. Philadelphia, PA.

Poster Presentation at Bridging the Gaps 25th Anniversary Poster Symposium. October 9th, 2015. Philadelphia, PA.

15.  Robert Weinrieb, Omair Abbasi, Marlee Madora, Alexandra Leto, Kevin Lynch, George Makar: A Matched Comparison Study of Medical and Psychiatric Complications in Methadone-Maintained Liver Transplant Recipients: Re-evaluation Nine Years Later.  Presented at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, 60th Annual Meeting. 2013.