The Brattleboro Retreat is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Dixon, MD, to the medical staff. Dr. Dixon is board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry and will spend the bulk of her clinical time working with adolescent inpatients.
Dixon recently moved to Vermont from Asheboro, NC, to pursue what she describes as “an amazing opportunity” here in Brattleboro. She earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia where she also completed her psychiatric internship. She also completed an internship in pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia and finished both a psychiatric residency and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at University of North Caroline Hospitals.
“In her first month here at the Retreat Dr. Dixon has already brought to our clients and our treatment team a calm, thoughtful manner, incredible attention to detail, and a respectful, ethically-based approach to understanding and treating clients and families,” said Robyn Ostrander, MD, medical director of Children’s Services. “We consider ourselves incredibly lucky, and look forward to benefiting from her significant clinical expertise.”
For the last 10 years Dr. Dixon has served in a community mental health clinic in North Carolina where she has “enjoyed the privilege of seeing children ages 3 to 18 years for evaluation and medication management.”
The Brattleboro Retreat, founded in 1834, is a not-for-profit, regional specialty psychiatric hospital and addictions treatment center, providing a full range of diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation services for individuals of all ages and their families. Nationally recognized for its premier treatment in behavioral healthcare, the Brattleboro Retreat offers a high quality, individualized, comprehensive continuum of care including inpatient, partial hospitalization, residential and outpatient treatment.