Dr. Elizabeth Cox, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist with over 10 years of clinical experience.  She received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and later studied medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina where she received her Doctor of Medicine.  She completed residency in psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she served as chief resident. She works with all genders of patients and is also an expert in reproductive psychiatry and women’s mental health treatment, and is well-versed in treating women’s mood and anxiety disorders, as well as other psychiatric disorders, during times of hormonal fluctuation and change (pregnancy, postpartum, menstruation, menopause and infertility). She previously served as Medical Director for UNC Women’s Mood Disorders at Wake Med North and Residency Education Director for Women’s Mood Disorders at UNC and with numerous textbook and scholarly journal publications in the field.  She remains Adjunct Faculty at UNC Chapel Hill and is Chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Committee on the Advisory Board of the Foundation of Hope in Raleigh.  She also serves on the Speaker's Bureau for Zurzuvae, the first FDA-approved oral treatment specifically for Postpartum Depression.

 

Dr. Cox believes in a holistic approach to treatment that includes nutrition, exercise, sleep, therapeutic interventions and pharmaceutical intervention, when indicated. She is originally from Charleston, SC but now calls Raleigh, NC home, where she resides with her 3 small children and spouse. 

 

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