Liisa Hantsoo, PhD

Dr. Hantsoo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the Director of Research in the Johns Hopkins Reproductive Mental Health Center, where her research and clinical work focus on the role of stress and ovarian hormones in women's mental health across the lifespan. Her primary research area is premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), and she also does research related to perinatal and perimenopausal mental health, adverse childhood experiences, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

She serves on the Clinical Advisory Board of the International Association of Premenstrual Disorders and she is a member of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC) Women & Mood Disorders Task Group, for which she chairs the Biological Mechanisms working group.

Dr. Hantsoo's research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Johns Hopkins Catalyst program, and the Johns Hopkins Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) Excellence in Sex & Age Differences in Immunity Seed Grant (2024) provided by The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine.