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Robyn Ostrander, MD

Dr. Robyn Ostrander is the Brattleboro Retreat's Senior Medical Director and Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Services. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed both her internship and residency in adult psychiatry and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School.

Dr. Ostrander is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology in both psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. She joined the Brattleboro Retreat in July of 2005 and became Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Services in November 2006. She joined the Retreat's executive leadership team in 2009.

Since 2005 she has been a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Ostrander’s clinical areas of expertise within child and adolescent psychiatry include depression and bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and psychotic disorders.

She co-authored a textbook, Neuroanatomy for Students of Behavioral Disorders, published by W.W. Norton & Co., in 2009.

 

Medical School:

Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
2000 (graduated)

Internship:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School
Lebanon, NH
2000-2003

Fellowship:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School
Lebanon, NH
2003-2005

Board Certifications:

American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
4/2005
Specialty: Psychiatry

American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
11/2006
Speciality: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry