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Assistant Professor, Children's Hospital Colorado
University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Campus
Dr. Aviva K. Olsavsky, MD, is an Assistant Professor and a perinatal/child psychiatrist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with appointments in Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the UCLA School of Medicine. She completed her adult psychiatry residency training at UCLA, a clinical research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, and her child and adolescent psychiatry and postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Colorado. Dr. Olsavsky’s clinical work includes evaluation and treatment of mothers who grapple with mental health conditions and/or substance use during the perinatal period, as well as working with mothers and infants to improve their relationships. Dr. Olsavsky’s NIH-funded research program aims to understand the impact of maternal substance use and mothers’ early adverse experiences on their neural responses to infant cues and relationships with their infants. She has designed innovative virtual educational programming for psychiatric trainees as they become new parents, allowing them to learn about perinatal mental health and clinical neuroscience, while spending more time with their infants. She is a consultant to the American Heart Association’s EmPOWERED to Serve program, which provides health educational content through community-based programs which aim to support and empower communities of color. In seeking to understand the mechanisms through which stress and substances act on the parental brain, Dr. Olsavsky hopes to improve preventive and treatment approaches, to support new families, and to impact the mental health of multiple generations.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST