Jennifer Palmer, M.D.
Adult Psychiatry, Women's Mood Disorders, Medication Management and Psychotherapy
Dr. Jennifer Palmer is a board-certified psychiatrist offering general psychiatric care to adults in the greater Baltimore area and throughout Maryland. She specializes in mood disorders, including major depression and bipolar disorder, and is particularly interested in reproductive-related mood syndromes in women such as post-partum and perimenopausal depression and the treatment of mood disorders during pregnancy.
Never, never, never give up
— attributed to Winston Churchill
2026 Updates
I will be leaving Sheppard Pratt on October 6, 2026 and moving to Johns Hopkins Personalized Care on or about December 14, 2026. Scheduling information for Hopkins will be forthcoming. Please note that in-person appointments will be preferred, and required if you are out of state. I will be unable to conduct virtual appointments across state lines after December 14th. However, I will be able to schedule virtual appointments in the interim. Please email me at jsteitelbaum@hotmail.com or call me at 410-929-1311 with any questions.
Background and Training
Dr. Palmer is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received her medical degree from Yale Medical School. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the University of Maryland and her psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Palmer completed a post-doctoral fellowship in affective disorders at Johns Hopkins during which she was involved in clinical trials studying bipolar depression and mood disorders in women during pregnancy. She continued to see patients in consultation at the Women's Mood Disorder Center as a Johns Hopkins faculty member through 2016. Dr. Palmer is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Past President of the Maryland Psychiatric Society. She is also an associate member of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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