Dwenda Gjerdingen, MD, MS

Professor
Research & St. Joseph’s Hospital Family Medicine Residency

Expertise

Postpartum depression, women’s health

Education

MD, MS, University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Bethesda Lutheran Hospital Family Medicine Residency
(now St. Joseph's Hospital program)

Bio

Gjerdingen has more than two decades of experience and productivity in women’s health research, most recently testing an NIH-funded stepped collaborative care intervention for postpartum depression. As a faculty member at the University of Minnesota St. Joseph’s Hospital Family Medicine Residency, Gjerdingen also teaches residents and medical students and maintains an active private practice.

Contact Information

580 Rice Street
St. Paul, MN 55103
651-227-6551
dgjerdin@umphysicians.umn.edu

Current Grant

2011-12, NICHD, co-investigator, "National Children's Study"

Recent Publications

Dagher RK, McGovern PM, Dowd BE, Gjerdingen DK. Postpartum depression and health services expenditures among employed women. J Occup Environ Med. 2012;54(2):210-5.

Gjerdingen DK, McGovern P, Center B. Problems with a diagnostic depression interview in a postpartum depression trial. J Am Board Fam Med. 2011;24:187-193.

Pawar G, Wetzker C, Gjerdingen DK. Prevalence of depressive symptoms in the immediate postpartum period. J Am Board Fam Med. 2011;24(3):258-61.

McGovern P, Dagher RK, Rice HR, Gjerdingen DK, Dowd B, Ukestad LK, et al. A longitudinal analysis of total workload and women's health after childbirth. J Occup Environ Med. 2011;April.

Gjerdingen DK, Crow S, McGovern P, Miner M, Center B. Changes in depressive symptoms over 0-9 months postpartum. J Women's Health (Larchmt). 2011;20:381-386.