Sara Levine Kornfield, PhD
Psychiatry
Accepting new patients
Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness Market Street
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Graduate School: Drexel University College of Nursing & Health Professions
  • Fellowship: VA Medical Center
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness Market Street

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Advanced Practice Provider
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Advanced Practice Provider
Dr. Kornfield is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Wisniewski, K., Henry, N., Flanagan, A. Y., Popoola, A., Weaver, N., Iglio, L., Alexandre, C., Myers, D., Tieu, T., Waller, R., Kornfield, S. L., Gur, R. E., Momplaisir, F., & Njoroge, W. F. M. Examining the Impact of the Syndemic on Black Birthing Individuals in the USA: A Systematic Review. , Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities: 2025


White, L.K., Perlstein, S., Gorgone, A., Himes, M.M., Kornfield, S.L., Shanmugan, S. Weitz, , E., Njoroge, W.F.M., Duncan, A.F., Burris, H.H., Laney, N., Gur, R.E., Waller, R.E., Chaiyachati, B.H. Evidence for Missed Cases of Postpartum Depression Based on Pediatric Clinical Care Screenings. , British Journal of Psychiatry: 2025


Keller, A. S., Sun, K. Y., Francisco, A., Robinson, H., Beydler, E., Bassett, D. S., Cieslak, M., Cui, Z., Davatzikos, C., Fan, Y., Gardner, M., Kishton, R., Kornfield, S. L., Larsen, B., Li, H., Linder, I., Pines, A., Pritschet, L., Raznahan, A., Roalf, D. R., … Shanmugan, S. Reproducible Sex Differences in Personalized Functional Network Topography in Youth. , British Journal of Psychiatry: 2025


Perlstein, S., Njoroge, W.F.M., White, S.K., Parish-Morris, J., Williams, A.I., Malone, K.S., Rodriguez, Y., Sun, S., Wisniewski, K., Popoola, A., Flum, M., Kornfield, S.L., Seidlitz, J., Chaiyachati, B.H., Barzilay, R., Gur, R.E., & Waller, R. Characterizing Social Communication Difficulties in Young Children within a Longitudinal Ecological Systems Framework. , Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: 2025


Njoroge, W.F.M., Tieu, T., Eckhardt, D., Himes, M., Alexandre, C., Hall, Waynitra, Wisniewski, K., Popoola, A., Holloway, K., Rodriguez, Y., Kornfield, S.L., Momplaisir, F., Wang, X., Gur, R., Waller, R. The Impact of the Pandemic on Mothers and Children, with a Focus on Syndemic Effects on Black Families: The "Prenatal to Preschool" Study Protocol. , Frontiers in Psychiatry-Perinatal Psychiatry , 14: 2024


Lenze, S. N., McKay-Gist, K., Paul, R., Tepe, M., Mathews, K., Kornfield, S., Phillips, C., Smith, R., Stoermer, A., & Carter, E. B. Elevating Voices, Addressing Depression, Toxic Stress, and Equity Through Group Prenatal Care: A Pilot Study. , Health Equity, 8(1): 2024,87-95


Kaplan, K., Obasi, M., Kundra, L., Blaine, V., Purcell, F., Kornfield, S.L. MotherSHIPP: An App in development for education and support of perinatal women with substance use disorders. , Alternative Media/mHealth App: 2024


Waller, R., Paz, Y., Himes, M. M., White, L. K., Rodriguez, Y., Gorgone, A., Luby, J., Gerstein, E. D., Brady, R. G., Chaiyachati, B. H., Duncan, A., Barzilay, R., Kornfield, S. L., Burris, H. H., Seidlitz, J., Parish-Morris, J., Laney, N., Gur, R. E., & Njoroge, W. F. M. Observations of Positive Parenting from Online Parent-Child Interactions at Age 1. , Parenting, science and practice, 24(1): 2024,39-65


Tan, M. T., Darden, N., Peterson, K., Trout, K. K., Christ, L., Handley, S. C., Kornfield, S. L., Power, M. E., Montoya-Williams, D., Lewey, J., Gregory, E. F., Lorch, S. A., DeMauro, S. B., Levine, L. D., & Burris, H. H. Bringing postpartum care to the NICU-An opportunity to improve health in a high-risk obstetric population. Journal of perinatology: official journal of the California Perinatal Association, , Journal of Perinatology, 43(1): 2023,1-2


Hantsoo, L., Jagodnik K.M., Novick, A.M., Baweja, R., di Scalea, T.L., Ozerdem, A., McGlade E.C., Simeonova D.I., Dekel, S., Kornfield, S.L., Nazareth, M., Weiss, S.J. The role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in depression across the female reproductive lifecycle: current knowledge and future directions. , Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14: 2023


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