Lisa Boyars, M.D.

Lisa Boyars, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist who specializes in providing psychiatric care during pregnancy and the postpartum period, including preconception planning for women with mental health conditions. She works at Women’s Reproductive Mental Health of Texas and the Comprehensive Fetal Care Center in addition to her faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Boyars received her Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin and her medical degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She completed psychiatry training at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2017 and a fellowship in perinatal and reproductive health in 2018. She served as director of the Women’s Reproductive Behavioral Health Clinic at Medical University of South Carolina from 2020 until 2022.

Her clinical expertise includes psychiatric issues related to perinatal mental health conditions, perinatal substance use disorders and individual psychotherapy. Her research interests include novel treatments for postpartum depression, treating perinatal substance use disorder with medications for opioid use disorder and burnout within medical students and residents. In 2022, she helped launch South Carolina’s first perinatal access program, MOMS IMPACTT, and is presently involved in a Peri-PAN, which is a perinatal access program serving women in Texas.