Dr. Rosen: Education, Training, and Professional Experience
Dr. Rosen has an extensive background as a practicing physician. She is formally trained in psychiatry as well as internal medicine and is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry.
A magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, Dr. Rosen received her M.D. degree from the Emory University School of Medicine here in Atlanta. She then completed her residency in internal medicine at Emory. She has served on the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, and practiced internal medicine in Atlanta and later, on Long Island in New York, in private practice. She made a major career shift, going back to train in psychiatry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she was Chief Resident her final year. She then served on the faculty there as a psychiatry attending, while starting her private practice in psychiatry. Dr. Rosen had always felt Atlanta was her true home and returned here in 2014 to open her practice in psychiatry.
Dr. Rosen treats adolescents and adults, ages 10 and up, and manages all aspects of psychiatry. Because of her internal medicine background, Dr. Rosen focuses on the entire person. She prefers to prescribe the least amount of medication possible and discusses with the patient the reasons why medication may or may not be appropriate. While some issues are mostly psychosocial (such as anxiety from life transitions) and may not call for medication, others are more biological in nature, and therefore difficult to treat without medications (such as bipolar disorder and ADHD). Alternatives are always discussed, and in the end, Dr. Rosen believes the client is the person ultimately in charge of their own care. Dr. Rosen sees herself as a guide, providing the information and tools so that a patient can reach the personal life goals one seeks, and live as happy and healthy a life as possible.