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    The Ellen Story Commission on Postpartum Depression

    a massachusetts special legislative commission

    This website is the official website of The Massachusetts Ellen Story Commission on Postpartum Depression.  This website is maintained by the Office of State Representative James J. O'Day and has not been paid for at taxpayer expense.

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    Commissioners

    Representative James O'Day

    House co-chair

    Senator Joan Lovely

    Senate co-chair

    Representative Carole Fiola

    House member

    Janice Goodman

    Nurses United for Responsible Service

    Margaret Hannah

    House Chair seat; Director of Freedman Center at William James College

    Michael Yogman

    Children's Behavioral Health Advisory Council

    Tiffany Moore-Simas

    Massachusetts Medical Society; OBGYN

    Peggy Kaufman

    National Association of Social Workers - MA

    Jessie Colbert

    House Chair seat

    Divya Kumar

    Every Mother Project; Lived experience with PPD

    Anne Boffa

    Representative of commercial health insurers; Harvard Pilgrim

    Liz Friedman

    Representative of regionally-based nonprofit 

    Kerry LaBounty

    Representative of commercial health insurers; Health New England

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    Vacant

    Representative of commercial health insurers

    Dr. Lisa Scarfo

    Representative of commercial health insurers; Neighborhood Health Plan

    Dr. Lee Cohen

    Massachusetts Medical Society; Psychiatrist

    Dr. Alison Schonwald

    Massachusetts Medical Society; Pediatrician

    Dr. Julie Johnston

    Massachusetts Medical Society; Family Physician

    Dr. Joshua Sparrow

    Massachusetts Medical Society; Child Psychiatrist

    Dr. Jayne Singer

    Massachusetts Psychological Association

    Vacant

    Massachusetts Midwives Association

    Karen Crowley

    Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners

    Elizabeth Murphy

    Massachusetts Association of Health Plans

    Dr. Monica Le

    Medicaid

    Rebecca Butler

    Massachusetts Division of Insurance

    Karin Downs

    Massachusetts Department of Public Health

    Dr. Gordon Harper

    Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

    Commissioner Tom Weber

    Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care

    Kristin Alexander

    Massachusetts Department of Children and Families

    Timoria McQueen Saba

    House chair seat

    Jamie Zahlaway Belsito

    Senate chair seat

    Senator Richard Ross

    Senate member

    Senator Bruce Tarr

    Senate minority member

    Representative Kim Ferguson

    House minority member

    Vacant

    House member

    Vacant

    House member

    Staff 

    Cate McAnulty

    Commission Director

    Johanna Wakelin

    Legislative Aide

    Past Commissioners & Staff

    Yaminette Diaz-Linhart

    Commission Director

    Representative Ellen Story

    House Co-chair

    Jessie Colbert

    Commission Director