Seddon Reed Savage MD, MS

Seddon R. Savage, MD, MS, is a clinician, educator, and advocate in the fields of addiction medicine and pain medicine. She earned a BA from Barnard College in 1973, an MS from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1976, and her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 1980. Dr. Savage serves as Medical Director of Chronic Pain Recovery Center at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut. She is an associate professor on the adjunct faculty of Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, directed the Dartmouth Center on Addiction Recovery and Education (DCARE) from September 2004 through January 2016, and now serves as an advisor to the Dartmouth Hitchcock Substance Use and Mental Health Initiative.

Dr. Savage Trained in anesthesiology, she was certified in addiction medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) in 1990, by the American Board of Addiction Medicine in 2010 and is an elected fellow of ASAM. She earned a certificate of added qualifications (CAQ) in pain medicine from the American Board of Anesthesiology (1992) and is certified in pain medicine by the American Academy of Pain Medicine (1996). Dr. Savage has held a number of national leadership positions in addiction medicine and pain medicine. She chaired the ASAM Committee on Pain from 1990-2003. She chaired the joint Liaison Committee on Pain and Addiction (LCPA) between the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the America Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine from 1999 through September 2005. She served as President of the American Pain Society in 2010-2012.