Preventable Deaths: Inside Maternal Mortality Review

Sarah Nagle-Yang, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she serves as Vice Chair for Quality, Executive Director of Colorado Women's Behavioral Health and Wellness, and co-director of the department's Perinatal, Reproductive, and Early Childhood section. She earned her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed psychiatry residency at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she was chief resident, followed by fellowships in consultation liaison psychiatry and in public and community psychiatry at University Hospitals in Cleveland. She co-chairs the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, which she helped found and which now reaches psychiatry and OBGYN residencies, nurse midwives, and psychiatric nurse practitioners, and she co-chairs Colorado's Maternal Mortality Review Committee. She is a co-editor of the Textbook of Women's Reproductive Mental Health, the first comprehensive text in the field, and a past president of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology. The Academy of Consult-Liaison Psychiatry recognized her curriculum work with its 2022 Stoudemire Innovations in Education Award. She practices in Aurora, where she leads a clinical program that includes a perinatal intensive outpatient program and serves as a psychiatrist on Colorado's perinatal mental health access line. She is currently helping build the maternal behavioral health track for TNT Primary Care Fellowships.