Dr. Alison Elizabeth Sullivan M.D.

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Dr. Alison Sullivan practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Middletown, NY.

Dr. Alison Sullivan is a psychiatrist and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Catskill Regional Medical Center and Orange Regional Medical Center.

Dr. Sullivan evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms.

She received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.  She completed her residency training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.  She obtained Board Certification in all three disciplines.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Sullivan seeks to improve each patients quality of the children and adolescents she treats.  Her areas of interest include depression, anxiety, attachment issues, bipolar disorder, and ADHD-Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC), is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Formed by the merger of Arden Hill Hospital and Horton Medical Center, Orange Regional moved the two campuses into a single-site, new, state-of-the-art facility on August 5, 2011.

This is the first new hospital built in New York State in over 20 years and boasts seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs over 2,400 healthcare professionals. More than 600 doctors have privileges at the hospital and treat thousands of area families, friends and neighbors.

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