Dr. Ariel Dalfen is a psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience caring for women across reproductive life stages: from those trying to conceive, through pregnancy and postpartum, to perimenopause and menopause populations. Dr Dalfen ran the largest women’s mental health program in Ontario at Mount Sinai Hospital for 12 years and started the first-of-its-kind women’s telemedicine program in 2014. In 2022, Dr. Dalfen co-founded BRIA (www.betterbria.com)-- a virtual care platform for women with mental health and hormonal issues across life stages. After completing her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, she attended McMaster University Medical School. Then she completed her specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Dalfen has published in both academic medical journals and the popular media. She lectures for medical and public audiences on various topics related to women’s mental health and has been a medical contributor on various television programs. In 2008, she published a book, When Baby Brings the Blues: Solutions for Postpartum Depression. This book is highly regarded and utilized by both healthcare providers and the general public.