Dr. Patricia Paddison is a psychiatrist who opened her own practice June 2003 in the Bellevue, Washington area after a 12 year relationship with Virgina Mason Medical Center in Seattle. Her specialties include the treatment of women's psychiatric disorders such as PMS, medications during pregnancy and postpartum, perimenopausal depression. Her interests include the interface of neurotransmitters and hormones and the effect they have on behavior. She has a growing psychopharmacologic practice and frequently lectures on the treatment of refractory depression. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Paddison completed her residency and fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She is also the author of many textbook chapters; the most current being "Hormonally-related Mood Disorders: PMS & Depression in Pregnancy, the Postpartum and the Perimenopause" published in the textbook, Current Care of Women: Diagnosis and Treatment (McGraw-Hill, 2003)

She has been listed in Seattle Magazine as a top doctor 3 times including September 2004.