Rachel Vanderkruik graduated from Bowdoin College in 2007 as a Biology major with a minor in Psychology. She is primarily the Clinical Research Coordinator for two longitudinal and observational studies. One of the studies is looking for predictors of relapse among women with bipolar disorder during pregnancy. The other study is investigating the risk of postpartum depression in women with histories of recurrent major depression. She is interested in public health, medicine and child development.