AACP Board
Area Representitive (A7)
Maggie Bennington-Davis, M.D.
Dr. Maggie Bennington-Davis is currently Chief Medical and Operating Officer for Cascadia BHC in Portland, Oregon, which serves more than 12,000 children, teens, adults, and seniors annually in a broad continuum of services. She chairs Cascadia’s Steering Committee for a nationwide Performance Improvement Project spearheaded by the Bazelon Center for MH Law, intended to facilitate system change in order to reduce the need for police contact with persons in mental health crises.
Prior to Cascadia, Maggie served as Psychiatry Medical Director for a regional medical center (Salem Hospital), as well as hospital Chief of Staff. A disciple of Dr. Sandy Bloom, and using quality improvement processes, she led development of a cultural change model for implementation of trauma-sensitive services with the subsequent elimination of seclusion and restraint on an acute psychiatric inpatient unit. She has co-authored a book and published articles and chapters on the subject.
During 2008-2009, Maggie assisted Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, Oregon in developing and opening an osteopathic psychiatry residency program. Imagining what we should be teaching the psychiatrists of the future is an exercise she recommends!
She has assisted organizations across the U.S. and Canada and beyond in implementation of trauma-informed services. She is on faculty at the Sanctuary Institute.
Dr. Bennington-Davis completed a Masters of Medical Management degree at Tulane University School of Public Health in 2005. She remains on faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University, where she completed both medical school and psychiatry residency.
Maggie Bennington-Davis, M.D.
23420 SW 65th Avenue
Tualatin, OR 97062
Email: maggiebdmd@cs.com