PROVIDENCE – Dr. Zobeida Diaz was recently appointed division director of women’s behavioral health at Women & Infants Hospital.
Diaz has served as interim director and as an attending physician in the hospital’s division of behavioral health, which she joined in October 2017. Diaz succeeds Margaret Howard, who left in December 2023 to join The Motherhood Center in New York City to help the center build its mother-baby program and department.
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Before joining Women & Infants, Diaz earned her bachelor’s degree in microbiology from the University of Michigan, then received her master’s in cellular and molecular biology from the same school. She earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health and completed her adult psychiatry residency at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School, where she was a chief resident.
While with Care New England Health System, which operates Women & Infants Hospital, Diaz has worked on the country’s first mother-baby partial hospital program and played an important role in peripartum psychiatric care through the RI MomsPRN program.
Katie Castellani is a PBN staff writer. You may contact her at Castellani@PBN.com.
