Ashley Davidson, MD received her medical degree from The Ohio State University and completed her residency at the University of Washington, where she was first exposed to the integrated care model.
Having worked with many patients whose route to psychiatric health had been delayed or disrupted by a history of inadequate care, Dr. Davidson chose to pursue the Integrated Care Fellowship because of her firm belief that psychiatric care should be a cornerstone of well-being. Through the fellowship she hopes to gain both the knowledge needed to comfortably practice psychiatry in an integrated care setting and the expertise to guide other health care systems interested in successfully implementing an integrated care model.
Dr. Davidson's primary clinical interest is perinatal psychiatry. She is particularly excited to bring integrated care to settings working with peripartum women facing emergent or long-standing mental illness, as these patients benefit strongly from well-managed psychiatric care and are often high-risk cases where proper intervention will make a significant difference in outcomes. She additionally enjoys psychotherapy, and although she will likely be working predominately in integrated care in the future, she plans to carve out some time to practice in the traditional psychiatric model.