Kathryn Zagrabbe, M.D.

Harvard-trained, board-certified psychiatrist with expertise in women’s mental health

Dr. Zagrabbe is a native Philadelphian and attended The Agnes Irwin School. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Psychology. She attended medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to complete her psychiatry training at the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Program where she was also a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. She was selected as the Massachusetts General Hospital Outpatient Chief Resident in her final year of residency. After residency, she returned to the University of Pennsylvania where she took on many leadership roles in medical student and residency education. 

Dr. Zagrabbe is an expert in women’s mental health. In medical school, she was awarded the prestigious Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship to support her research investigating the effects of maternal stress on pregnancy outcomes. In residency, she received specialized training in perinatal and reproductive psychiatry at the MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health. While there, she contributed to the Center’s blog womensmentalhealth.org. After residency, Dr. Zagrabbe joined the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness at the University of Pennsylvania. She also served as a consulting psychiatrist at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Most recently, she served as the medical director of the Women’s Emotional Wellness Center in King of Prussia, PA.

Dr. Zagrabbe has written book chapters on the management of psychiatric illness in pregnancy and the postpartum period. She has presented at national conferences on the treatment of depression in pregnancy and the impact of stress on pregnancy outcomes. In addition to her current clinical practice, she continues to teach at the University of Pennsylvania.