Alison Duncan, MD
Biography
Dr. Alison Duncan received her BFA and BA from the Hartt School and University of Hartford in 1998, completed the premedical studies at City College of New York in 2007 and received her MD from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in 2013 as a member of the charter class. She completed her residency training in Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico in 2016 before joining the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Brown. During fellowship training she continued to pursue her passions in quality improvement and patient safety, consult liaison psychiatry and substance use disorders, presenting at national conferences in addition to her work at Brown. She was awarded the NIDA-AACAP Resident Training Award in Substance Use Disorders in 2016 for a motivational interviewing teaching project. Following fellowship, she joined the faculty of Boston University Medical School as Associate Medical Director for Psychiatric Emergency Services at Boston Medical Center where she continues to pursue research, teaching, and clinical work.