CME Credit Available
This activity offers
1 Category 1-A AOA
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

About
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

5:30 - 6:30 PM Central / 6:30 - 7:30 PM Eastern 

Perinatal mental health conditions affect up to 20% of pregnant women, yet many cases go undiagnosed due to symptom overlap with normal pregnancy changes, provider time constraints, and limited training in perinatal psychiatry. This webinar addresses critical knowledge gaps by providing practical screening tools, treatment protocols that balance maternal mental health with fetal safety, and coordination strategies between obstetric and mental health teams. Physicians will gain skills to identify at-risk patients, implement appropriate interventions, and provide comprehensive care that supports both maternal wellbeing and healthy pregnancy outcomes.

Faculty

Emmie Strassberg, DO, FACOOG

Dr. Strassberg is a Board-Certified OBGYN and Maternal-Fetal Medicine physician practicing at in Winchester, VA. She is passionate about providing comprehensive high-risk pregnancy care for her patients in the Shenandoah Valley. Dr. Strassberg graduated medical school from Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2010, attended OBGYN residency at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, NY, and an MFM fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. Since graduating with a fellowship in 2017, she has worked at Shenandoah Valley Maternal-Fetal Medicine in Winchester, VA. Dr. Strassberg’s research interests include multiple studies with the Pregnancy-Related Care Research Network (PCRN) on vaccination acceptance in pregnancy, including collaborating on an upcoming project regarding patient knowledge and acceptance of the RSV vaccine in pregnancy.  She has also led a randomized controlled trial on patient education methods for preeclampsia in pregnancy and participated in other research projects concerning preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction. She is a certified life coach and runs a coaching business, Power Passenger Passage, where she coaches anxious pregnant women through preconception to postpartum and more.

Learning Objectives
Those participating in this activity will receive information that should allow them to:

• Review perinatal and postpartum mental health disorders

• Identify appropriate screening tools for mental health disorders in pregnancy

• Discuss management and treatment of mental health disorders in pregnancy

• Review resources for patients and providers
  
  

Conflict of Interest Disclosures
ACOOG requires each planner and presenter to identify all financial relationships with ineligible companies, and mitigates risk of bias using a series of strategies for relevant relationships. Unless otherwise noted below, the ACOOG, ACOOG staff and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Dr. Strassberg has no relevant relationship with an ineligible company to disclose.

Webinar Information
This is a live webinar. Those who register will be able to submit question to the faculty member. In this format, you will not be able to interact with other participants during the session. 

System Requirements
An internet connected device (computer or mobile device) with high speed access is required. The platform is Zoom. You'll need to install the Zoom Client, available here. To test your system for Zoom, click here. It is designed to work on most popular web browsers. JavaScript and cookies should be enabled in your browser in order for the activity to properly work. If you're experiencing technical issues, please update your browser, and clear your browsing history, cookies, and cache. This often solves most common technical issues.

Requirements for Successful Completion
To successfully complete this activity, participants must:

• Register for and participate in the webinar
• Complete the activity evaluation
• Claim credit

A certificate will be available in the ACOOG learning center (under transcripts) when the session is over AND you complete the evaluation. 

Commercial Support
This activity is not commercially supported. 

CME Accreditation
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Designation
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this program for a maximum of 1 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ACOG Cognate Credit(s)
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this activity for Category 1 College Cognate Credits. Maximum Cognates are equal to the number of  maximum AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM . A reciprocity agreement with the AMA exists that allows AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM to be equivalent to ACOG Cognate Credits.

NPs, PAs & CNMs
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) recognizes activities approved for Category 1-A credit through the American Osteopathic Association and Category 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as providing advanced practice CE content hours for applicants seeking renewal through continuing education credit.

The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) recognizes activities approved for Category 1-A credit through the American Osteopathic Association and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as Regular Category 1 CME for national certification maintenance.

The Certificate Maintenance Program of the American Midwifery Certification Board accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to satisfy its contact hours requirement. 

All NPs, PAs, CNMs and other health professionals participating in this activity will receive a certificate of completion commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ACOOG strongly recommends all non-physician health professionals check with their certification/licensing organizations to confirm credit reciprocity.

Disclaimer
This activity is offered by the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOOG) for educational purposes only. Every patient case is different, and physicians must rely on their medical knowledge, experience, and relationships with patients to make clinical decisions. This material is not intended to represent the best or only methods or procedures appropriate for the condition discussed; rather the material is intended to present an approach, view, statement or opinion of the authors or presenters, which may be helpful, or of interest to other practitioners. Physician judgment must remain central to the selection of diagnostic tests, management strategies, therapy options, and follow-up of a specific patient's medical condition.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
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Grievances
Any registrant finding evidence that the continuing medical education program presented is inappropriate with regard to facilities, materials, content, or observes any unacceptable promotion by a commercial interest in the same room as the educational activity, whether by company representative or presenter, may submit a grievance in writing to ACOOG, PO Box 17598, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Unresolved issues regarding this activity will require a formal written complaint to the AOA Division of CME, 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

Privacy Policy
This activity complies with ACOOG’s privacy policies.

Data Use
Data collected as part of this activity may be analyzed as part of educational research to study the effectiveness of educational interventions on health care, population health, health care providers and others, or to identify additional needs and gaps for future interventions.

Refunds
Refunds are not available for this educational product.