Bio

Dr. Celeste Poe is a licensed clinical psychologist with a certification in perinatal mental health. She completed her residency and fellowship training at the Yale Child Study Center. She received her Ph.D. from Palo Alto University, her master’s degree from Pepperdine University and is a proud HBCU alumni of Xavier University of Louisiana where she received her bachelor’s degree.

Dr. Poe is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending NICU and Perinatal Psychologist at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the director of the NICU Psychology Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where she provides psychological consultation and psychotherapy to parents requiring hospitalization due to high risk pregnancies and parents of infants hospitalized in the NICU. Dr. Poe’s clinical specialties include perinatal mental health and maternal-infant critical care with a focus on child and caregiver trauma, grief, and bereavement, as well as children ages 0-5 and parenting. Her research focuses on Black perinatal mental health and mental health equity, infant and parent mental health in medical settings, and intergenerational trauma. Dr. Poe is a registered Circle of Security Parenting facilitator and is a rostered Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) provider.

Dr. Poe also holds an appointment as a Clinical Instructor at the Yale Child Study Center where she works on the Grief-Sensitive Healthcare Project which aims to enhance medical providers’ capacities to meet the needs of grieving families.

Clinical Focus

  • NICU Psychology
  • Perinatal Mental Health
  • Early Childhood Mental Health
  • Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Academic Appointments

Professional Education

  • Internship: Yale New Haven Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department (2021) CT
  • Fellowship: Yale New Haven Medical Center CT
  • PhD Training: Palo Alto University Registrar (2021) CA

Contact

  • Academic
    cpoe@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development Position: Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Clinical (Primary)  Stanford Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 401 Quarry Rd MC 5718 Stanford, CA 94305 (650) 723-5511 (fax)

Additional Clinical Info

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 5717

All Publications

  • Red teaming ChatGPT in medicine to yield real-world insights on model behavior. NPJ digital medicine Chang, C. T., Farah, H., Gui, H., Rezaei, S. J., Bou-Khalil, C., Park, Y. J., Swaminathan, A., Omiye, J. A., Kolluri, A., Chaurasia, A., Lozano, A., Heiman, A., Jia, A. S., Kaushal, A., Jia, A., Iacovelli, A., Yang, A., Salles, A., Singhal, A., Narasimhan, B., Belai, B., Jacobson, B. H., Li, B., Poe, C. H., Sanghera, C., Zheng, C., Messer, C., Kettud, D. V., Pandya, D., Kaur, D., Hla, D., Dindoust, D., Moehrle, D., Ross, D., Chou, E., Lin, E., Haredasht, F. N., Cheng, G., Gao, I., Chang, J., Silberg, J., Fries, J. A., Xu, J., Jamison, J., Tamaresis, J. S., Chen, J. H., Lazaro, J., Banda, J. M., Lee, J. J., Matthys, K. E., Steffner, K. R., Tian, L., Pegolotti, L., Srinivasan, M., Manimaran, M., Schwede, M., Zhang, M., Nguyen, M., Fathzadeh, M., Zhao, Q., Bajra, R., Khurana, R., Azam, R., Bartlett, R., Truong, S. T., Fleming, S. L., Raj, S., Behr, S., Onyeka, S., Muppidi, S., Bandali, T., Eulalio, T. Y., Chen, W., Zhou, X., Ding, Y., Cui, Y., Tan, Y., Liu, Y., Shah, N., Daneshjou, R. 2025; 8 (1): 149

    Abstract

    Red teaming, the practice of adversarially exposing unexpected or undesired model behaviors, is critical towards improving equity and accuracy of large language models, but non-model creator-affiliated red teaming is scant in healthcare. We convened teams of clinicians, medical and engineering students, and technical professionals (80 participants total) to stress-test models with real-world clinical cases and categorize inappropriate responses along axes of safety, privacy, hallucinations/accuracy, and bias. Six medically-trained reviewers re-analyzed prompt-response pairs and added qualitative annotations. Of 376 unique prompts (1504 responses), 20.1% were inappropriate (GPT-3.5: 25.8%; GPT-4.0: 16%; GPT-4.0 with Internet: 17.8%). Subsequently, we show the utility of our benchmark by testing GPT-4o, a model released after our event (20.4% inappropriate). 21.5% of responses appropriate with GPT-3.5 were inappropriate in updated models. We share insights for constructing red teaming prompts, and present our benchmark for iterative model assessments.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41746-025-01542-0

    View details for PubMedID 40055532

    View details for PubMedCentralID 10564921

  • Neurodevelopmental, Mental Health, and Parenting Issues in Preterm Infants. Children (Basel, Switzerland) Shaw, R. J., Givrad, S., Poe, C., Loi, E. C., Hoge, M. K., Scala, M. 2023; 10 (9)

    Abstract

    The World Health Organization in its recommendations for the care of preterm infants has drawn attention to the need to address issues related to family involvement and support, including education, counseling, discharge preparation, and peer support. A failure to address these issues may translate into poor outcomes that extend across the lifespan. In this paper, we review the often far-reaching impact of preterm birth on the health and wellbeing of the parents and highlight the ways in which psychological stress may have a negative long-term impact on the parent-child interaction, attachment, and the styles of parenting. This paper addresses the following topics: (1) neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm infants, including cognitive, sensory, and motor difficulties, (2) long-term mental health issues in premature infants that include elevated rates of anxiety and depressive disorders, autism, and somatization, which may affect social relationships and quality of life, (3) adverse mental health outcomes for parents that include elevated rates of depression, anxiety, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress, as well as increased rates of substance abuse, and relationship strain, (4) negative impacts on the parent-infant relationship, potentially mediated by maternal sensitivity, parent child-interactions, and attachment, and (5) impact on the parenting behaviors, including patterns of overprotective parenting, and development of Vulnerable Child Syndrome. Greater awareness of these issues has led to the development of programs in neonatal mental health and developmental care with some data suggesting benefits in terms of shorter lengths of stay and decreased health care costs.

    View details for DOI 10.3390/children10091565

    View details for PubMedID 37761526

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