Columbia Alumni Medalists 2011 - Martha G. Welch '71PS
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 07/01/2013

Columbia Alumni Medalist, Martha G. Welch '71PS. Hear her story. #columbia. Martha G. Welch ’71P&S has been an alumni leader of Columbia since 1975. She has served on numerous committees, including
the P&S Student-Alumni Affairs Committee, the Executive Committee of the P&S Alumni Board of Directors and as President of the P&S Alumni Association from 2001-2002. Her professional career has also intersected with Columbia: In 1997, after 25 years of practicing child and family psychiatry in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, Dr. Welch joined the faculty of her P&S alma mater to translate her bedside findings to the bench. She currently holds appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry (Division of Developmental Neuroscience), Pathology and Cell Biology, and Pediatrics. In 2006, Dr. Welch established and became co-director of the BrainGut Initiative, where her basic research programs investigate the mechanisms that underlie maternal nurture. Dr. Welch has a deep
commitment to mentoring young people in medicine and encouraging them to participate in the innovative basic and clinical environment that her work spans. Her book, Holding Time, was published by Simon & Shuster in 1988, remained in print for twenty years, and was translated into several languages. Dr. Welch’s P&S family includes a sister, Dr. Elizabeth A. Welch ’76P&S, and a brother-in-law, Dr. Stephen E. Glinick ’76P&S, both dermatologists in Rhode Island; it also includes her son, Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch-Horan ’03CC, ’08P&S, a third-year resident in Pediatrics at Morgan-Stanley Children’s Hospital.