Dawn Abriel, DO

Health care has been a passion since the 1970s. My initial exposure was as a volunteer for a Migrant Health Center in Washington State. I studied massage therapy in Canada in 1972, and became a Registered Nurse in 1979. Attending The College of Osteopathic Medical School of the Pacific. After graduating in 1988, I did an Osteopathic Rotating Internship at two hospitals in Montclair, California from July 1988 – until June 1989. I was accepted to an Emergency Medicine Residency in 1989, moved to New Orleans, LA, and completed the EM residency in 1992. A few years later I became Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and practiced primarily in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2002 I founded Mobile Medicine, which continues to operate as a non-profit business to bring medical and psychological services to people of Santa Fe, NM. This home visit style practice spurred me on to study Interpersonal Neurobiology; a subject in which I hold a certificate from Southwestern College. Currently I am the Medical Director of a methadone clinic in Albuquerque and am finishing (Spring 2017) a master’s degree in Counseling at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM. I was invited to be a part of the Bright Heart Health team in 2016 to consult on the medical aspect of establishing a telemedicine Suboxone outpatient clinic. I have continued as one of BHH’s telemedicine staff physicians.