Dr. Elizabeth Cox, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist with over 10 years of clinical experience.  She studied Art History as an undergraduate at 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. 

 

Dr. Cox works with all genders of patients treating a variety of conditions, including burnout, grief, mood and anxiety disorders, as well as trauma-related conditions. She 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 was previously the Medical Director for UNC Women’s Mood Disorders at Wake Med North and Residency Education Director for Women’s Mood Disorders at UNC. She has numerous textbook and scholarly journal publications in the field, and has served on the speaker’s bureau for Sage pharmaceuticals regarding Brexanolone, the first ever FDA-approved treatment specifically for postpartum depression.  
 

Dr. Cox has studied alternative treatments for depression, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). She believes in a holistic approach to treatment that includes nutrition, exercise, sleep, therapeutic interventions and pharmaceutical intervention when indicated. She remains Adjunct Faculty for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Dr. Cox grew up in Charleston, SC but now calls Raleigh, NC home where she resides with her three small children, spouse and their two dogs.

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