Dr. Rachel Fortune is the Executive Medical Director of Monte Nido Walden. Dr. Fortune joined Walden Behavioral Care in 2017 after several years working in both academic Adolescent Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine/Yale New Haven Hospital and private residential mental health treatment at Newport Academy.
Dr. Fortune is board certified in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and has devoted her career to caring for adolescent patients, particularly those struggling with eating disorders.
Dr. Fortune graduated with her M.D. in 2004 from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She completed Pediatrics residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 2007 and Adolescent Medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado 2012.
Dr. Fortune brings her enthusiasm, passion, humor and no-nonsense clinical approach to the patients at Walden’s inpatient unit and her approachable leadership style to the team she leads there.