Our Faculty
Vivien K. Burt, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles.
Founder and Consulting Director of the Women’s Life Center at the Semel Institute and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.
Biography
Vivien K. Burt, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the founder and Consulting Director of the Women’s Life Center at the Semel Institute and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.
Dr. Burt has authored numerous articles and book chapters in the field of women’s psychiatry and co-authored The Clinical Manual for Women’s Mental Health. She has been honored with an Outstanding House Staff Teaching Award from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute; both a President’s Award and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Southern California Psychiatric Society; the Distinguished Service Award of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital; and the 2008 Andre Boivin Professorship of the Motherisk Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
The focus of her activities includes projects on women’s mental health, with a particular focus on psychiatric illnesses associated with reproductive transitions.