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Dr. Matthew Menza, chair of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's Department of Psychiatry (second from right), tackles the subject of stigma in postpartum depression during a recent expert panel discussion on the topic. Other panelists were (l-r) Dr. Charletta Ayers, chief of the division of general obstetrics and gynecology at the medical school, who served as moderator; Mary Jo Codey, former First Lady of New Jersey; Kathy Mahoney, perinatal clinical nurse specialist with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital; Dr. Mayra Cruz Ithier, a fellow in the medical school’s division of maternal-fetal medicine; Adrienne Simonds, assistant professor of rehabilitation and movement sciences at Rutgers School of Health Related Professions; and Dr. Anthony Tobia, associate professor of psychiatry at the medical school.