Maria Muzik MD MS, Certified in Addiction Medicine (She/her)

Summary

• Dr. Maria Muzik, MD, MSc is a Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Michigan. She holds a medical degree from the University of Vienna, Austria, and completed residency in psychiatry both at University Hospital in Vienna and University of Michigan. She also holds a master’s degree from the UM School of Public Health. She is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine. Dr Muzik is the Medical Director of Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine University of Michigan, and of MC3 Perinatal, Michigan’s perinatal psychiatry access program. At Michigan Medicine Psychiatry, Dr. Muzik co-directs Zero To Thrive, a program to support families who are challenged by adversity to help them thrive across pregnancy to postpartum. She is also co-director of Partnering for the Future clinic at Michigan Medicine providing integrated perinatal care for women with substance use disorders. She co-developed the Strong Roots™ programs, a menu of resiliency-oriented interventions. Her research work focuses on the impact of adversity and mental illness in the context of childbearing on caregiving and the developing parent-child relationship, and how to support families in overcoming psychological and environmental adversity and promote resilience, healing, and growth.