Jennifer Palmer, MD, is an inpatient psychiatrist at The Retreat by Sheppard Pratt, as well as in a Sheppard Pratt outpatient mental health clinic. She has been in private practice since 2009 and worked as an instructor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine between 2009 and 2016. Dr. Palmer earned a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University, a pre-medical certificate from Mills College, and a medical degree from Yale School of Medicine. She completed and internship in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, followed by a residency in psychiatry and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in women’s mood disorders at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Palmer is a member and distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member, past president, and past council chair of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, and a member and past chair of the Legislative Action Committee. She is also a general member of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the American Medical Association of Women Psychiatrists, and MedChi.
Publications:
• _Teitelbaum JS, Auerbach AD, Reid MC, Hughes JS. "Impact on Medicine Residents of a Teaching Hospital Closure."Journal of General Internal Medicine 2002;17(Suppl. 1):236
• _Martinello RA, Teitelbaum J, Young E, Hostetter MK. "Nontypable Haemophilus Influenzae Meningitis in an Eleven-Year-Old.” The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2004;23(3):281, 285-6
• _Palmer JT, Payne JL. "Stabilization of Hypomania Following Initiation of Tamoxifen." Am J Psychiatry 2008;165(5):650-1
• _Payne JL, Palmer JT, Joffe H. "A reproductive subtype of depression: conceptualizing models and moving toward etiology."Harv Rev Psychiatry 2009;17(2):72-86