Bronwyn Huggins
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA
Biography
Bronwyn Huggins is a fourth-year psychiatry resident at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY where she also completed medical school. She has worked within a community hospital setting for nearly eight years, working with minority populations, treating the severely mentally ill. She has seen how the psychosocial stressors that plague this demographic influence the mental wellbeing of individuals, and how this trauma impacts subsequent generations. She is particularly interested in the area of preventative care and developing interventions during the partum period to minimize the potential for inter-generational trauma transmission. Dr. Huggins plans to continue her research and clinical work when she will begin a fellowship in Women’s Mental Health at New York University.