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Dr Miele has twenty years’ experience in women’s mental health. She has clinical background in Obstetrics &Gynaecology, a research background in Neuroscience and she is an accredited infant mental health practitioner. Dr Miele is a practising clinical
psychiatrist in the private sector and sees patients at the Portland (in person
and remote consultation).

Dr Miele was a consultant in perinatal psychiatry at St Mary’s Hospital
from 2009 to 2023 and was the trust wide Perinatal Clinical Lead from 2016 to
2020. She chaired the North West London Perinatal Mental Health Network (NHSE) from
2016 to 2022; she contributed to the development of specialist perinatal mental
health services across London and best practice guidelines. Dr Miele trained in
Infant Mental Health with Dr PO Svanberg (Care Index and Parent Infant
Interaction Observation Scale - PIIOS). She is an accredited trainer
for the Parent Infant Interaction Observation Scale course at Warwick
University Medical School. Since 2020 she is a trustee of the AIMH UK and the Brazelton
Centre UK

Dr Miele main research interest focussed on the impact of perinatal mental illness on infant development.  Dr Miele is actively involved in training and teaching programs to raise awareness on perinatal mental illness and improve clinical skills in perinatal and infant mental health care