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Amanda Sedgewick, DO

Psychiatrist | Psychiatry

115 Mill Street Belmont MA, 02478
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Dr. Amanda Sedgewick is a psychiatrist practicing in Belmont, MA. Dr. Sedgewick is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Sedgewick diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Sedgewick may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Sedgewick treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.

Education and Training

University of New England DO 2014

Board Certification

American Board of Addiction Medicine

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Provider Details

FemaleEnglish

Areas of expertise and specialization

Women's mental healthIntimate partner violenceTraumaDialectical Behavioral TherapyCognitive Processing TherapySubstance Use Disorders

Professional Memberships

  • AAAP  

Fellowships

  • 2018-2019 Womens Mental Health Fellowship, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School

What do you attribute your success to?

  • Her education and training has created this sense of always providing excellent service.

Areas of research

Peer-Reviewed Scholarship in print or other media: 

Research Investigations

 

1.   Amanda E. Sedgewick , Callie L. Wang , Emily A. Levine, Shelly F. Greenfield & Dawn E. Sugarman. Recovering Safety: A Pilot Study of a Women’s Empowerment Group for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with Substance Use Disorders, Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 42:1, 62-75. Dec 2023. DOI: 10.1080/07347324.2023.2272799

 

2.   E. S. Klings, D. A. Dworkis, A. Sedgewick, S. W. Hartley, A. Ashley-Koch, M. J. Telen, G. J. Kato, M. T. Gladwin, P. Sebastiani, C. Baldwin, M. H. Steinberg. Association of Genetic Polymorphisms In NEDD4L With Pulmonary Hypertension Of Sickle Cell Disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 181;2010: A4881.

 

3.   Sebastiani P, Montano M, Puca A, Solovieff N, Kojima T, Wang M, Melista E, Meltzer M, Fischer S, Andersen S, Hartley SH, Sedgewick AE, Arai Y, Bergman A, Barzilai N, Terry DF, Riva A, Viviani C, Anselmi, Malovini A, Kitamoto A, Sawabe M, Arai T, Gondo T, Steinberg MH6, Hirose N, Atzmon G, Ruvkun G, Baldwin C, Perls T. RNA Editing Genes Associated with Extreme Old Age in Humans and with Lifespan in C. elegans. PLoS ONE 2009; 4(12): e8210.

 

4.   Amanda E. Sedgewick, Nadia Timofeev, Paola Sebastian, Jason C.C. So, Edmond S.K. Ma, Li Chong Chan, Goonnapa Fucharoen, Supan Fucharoen, Cynara G. Barbosa, Badri N. Vardarajan, Lindsay A. Farrer, Clinton T. Baldwin, Martin H. Steinberg, David H.K. Chui . BCL11A is a major HbF quantitative trait locus in three different populations with β-hemoglobinopathies. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2008 Aug   6.

 

5.   Paola Sebastiani, Zhenming Zhao, Maria Abad-­Grau, Alberto Riva, Steven Hartley, Amanda Sedgewick,   Alessandro Doria, Monty Montano, Efthymia Melista, Dellara Terry, Thomas T Perls, Martin H Steinberg, Clinton T Baldwin. A Hierarchical and ModularApproach to the Discovery of Robust Associations in Genome-Wide Association Studies from Pooled DNA Samples. BMCGenetics 2008, 9:6.

 

Non-peer reviewed scholarship in print or other media:

Reviews, chapters, monographs and editorials

 

1.   Sedgewick, AE, Connery, HS, Greenfield, SF, Addictions. In F.M. CM Stonnington & J Files (Eds.). Burnout in Women Physicians. Springer Nature. 2020.  doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44459-4.

 

Amanda Sedgewick, DO's Practice location

McLean Hospital

115 Mill Street -
Belmont, MA 02478
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