Simha Ravven, MD, Interim Chief Medical Officer at the Brattleboro Retreat, was elected Vice President of the Vermont Medical Society (VMS) at the organization’s 205th annual meeting on October 27 in Stowe, Vermont.
Dr Ravven is a graduate of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She completed her psychiatric residency at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Mass., and served as a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She completed her Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
Prior to returning to Yale in 2016 to pursue various academic, research, and clinical interests, Dr Ravven served as Medical Director of the Brattleboro Retreat’s Birches Treatment Center, which provides partial hospital and intensive outpatient programming for people dealing with psychiatric and/or addiction issues. She came back to the Retreat in August, 2017 as the hospital’s Senior Medical Director, and in September, 2018, Dr Ravven became the Retreat’s Interim Chief Medical Officer.
In addition to her involvement with VMS, Dr Ravven is also an active member of the American Psychiatric Association and the Vermont Psychiatric Association.