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Fay Womer, MD
Current
Position
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
University Roles
Medical Student Clerkship Director
Education and Training
BA: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1999
MD: University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, 2003
Residency: General Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO , 2007
Major Awards
Eli Robins Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry, Teaching and Research (Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis, MO), 2007
Areas of Clinical Interest
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression
Areas of Research Interests
Brain abnormalities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Development of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, particularly the impact of early life trauma on the onset and neuropathophysiology of these disorders
Cross cultural comparisons of major psychiatric disorders
Key Publications
Chepenik LG, Wang F, Spencer L, Spann M, Kalmar JH, Womer F, Kale Edmiston E, Pittman B, Blumberg HP (2012 Apr). Structure-function associations in hippocampus in bipolar disorder. Biol Psychol. 90(1): 18-22. Full Article ->
Xu K, Jiang W, Ren L, Ouyang X, Jiang Y, Wu F, Kong L, Womer F, Liu Z, Blumberg HP, Tang Y, Wang F (2012 Apr 3). Impaired interhemispheric connectivity in medication-naive patients with major depressive disorder. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 37(3): 110132. Full Article ->
Wang F, Kalmar JH, Womer FY, Edmiston EE, Chepenik LG, Chen R, Spencer L, Blumberg HP (2011 Jul). Olfactocentric paralimbic cortex morphology in adolescents with bipolar disorder. Brain. 134(Pt 7): 2005-12. Full Article ->
Womer FY, Kalmar JH, Wang F, Blumberg HP (2009 Sep 23). A Ventral Prefrontal-Amygdala Neural System in Bipolar Disorder: A View from Neuroimaging Research. Acta Neuropsychiatr. 21(6): 228-238. Full Article ->
Womer FY, Wang F, Chepenik LG, Kalmar JH, Spencer L, Edmiston E, Pittman BP, Constable RT, Papademetris X, Blumberg HP (2009 Nov). Sexually dimorphic features of vermis morphology in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 11(7): 753-8. Full Article ->
Kalmar JH, Wang F, Chepenik LG, Womer FY, Jones MM, Pittman B, Shah MP, Martin A, Constable RT, Blumberg HP (2009 Jun). Relation between amygdala structure and function in adolescents with bipolar disorder. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 48(6): 636-42. Full Article ->