Semra Etyemez, MD, MPH, graduated from Medical School at the Justus Liebig University in Germany and received her psychiatry and psychotherapy training at University of Frankfurt. She came to the US to pursue her MPH studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Then, she completed a research fellowship in molecular psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she studied peripheral and central biomarkers in first-episode psychosis. Currently, she works on the PIPPI lab team at Weill Cornell Medical College as a research associate. As a psychiatrist, she has been fascinated with the biological changes that occur during the perinatal period and their effect on the mental state of women, and she is interested in investigating the biological mechanisms of perinatal psychiatric diseases. Her goal is to discover and identify biomarkers and to develop non-pharmacological interventions to treat and prevent perinatal depression, anxiety, and psychosis.