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Peggy Scallon, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP

Chief Medical Officer – Oconomowoc Campus, Medical Director, Focus Depression Recovery Adolescent Residential Care, Psychiatrist

Peggy Scallon, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP, is a board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist who serves as the chief medical officer of Rogers Behavioral Health in Oconomowoc. Additionally, she is the medical director of Focus Depression Recovery Adolescent Residential Care at Rogers' Oconomowoc campus.

Prior to joining Rogers, Dr. Scallon was a clinical associate professor and the director of the residency training program in child and adolescent psychiatry with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she continues to teach medical students. Dr. Scallon has been honored for teaching excellence by her colleagues on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Scallon’s clinical interests are treating mood disorders in adolescents, borderline personality disorder in adolescents, attachment disorders, adoption, and parenting issues. Dr. Scallon has served as an oral board examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in the subspecialty of child and adolescent psychiatry. In addition to her patient care responsibilities, Dr. Scallon provides supervision, training, and instruction to child and adolescent psychiatry fellows from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and hosts a rotation for MCW medical students. In recognition of her extensive clinical and teaching experience, Dr. Scallon was named a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 2015, and was named a Distinguished Fellow of both the APA and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2021.

Dr. Scallon earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed a three-year general psychiatry residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, followed by a two-year fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the UW Health.

Dr. Scallon is an active member of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association, the Wisconsin Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Wisconsin Medical Society. She began a two-year term as president of the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors on July 1, 2024.