Bio:
Pamela A. Geller, PhD, is a professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, and research associate professor of obstetrics/gynecology in Drexel’s College of Medicine. Dr. Geller is currently the Director of Clinical Training and serves as the program director for Drexel's PhD program in clinical psychology. Geller has studied women’s health issues for nearly 30 years.
She received her MS and PhD in clinical psychology from Kent State University and completed a NIH postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. Her work focuses on the psychological aspects of events surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, and postpartum depression. Geller is co-founder and co-director of Mother Baby Connections, an intensive outpatient mental health program at Drexel for pregnant and postpartum women experiencing anxiety and depression and their infants. With a visiting professorship in neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she and her colleagues are addressing the experiences of parents with an infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with ongoing projects relevant to parental distress and adjustment, and nurse education.
Geller serves on the Board of Directors of the National Perinatal Association and helped develop guidelines for psychosocial support services for NICU parents. She serves on the Executive Committee of the National Network of NICU Psychologists (NNNP) and chairs the NNNP Research Committee. She and Drexel colleagues created the education curricula, Psychological and Medical Aspects of Pregnancy Loss (recipient of an e-ERA award from the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics; Available at: mededportal.org/publication/10240; https://webcampus.med.drexel.edu/interactive/PregLoss/module/content/index.htm). Geller is an editor of the Health Psychology volume of the Handbook of Psychology, as well as Women’s Health Psychology, both published by Wiley. She has presented her work nationally and internationally and has been featured on BBC Radio programs.