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Meet Dr. Alyson Maloy, MD

Dr. Maloy is triple board-certified in neurology, psychiatry, and integrative holistic medicine and fellowship-trained in the neurologic subspecialty of autonomic disorders.

She earned her undergraduate Bachelors of the Arts degree in 1997 from Columbia College of Columbia University in New York City. At Columbia she created an independent major to study cultural influences on science and medicine and completed a concentration in premedical studies.

Dr. Maloy earned her Doctorate of Medicine degree in 2004 from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, serving there as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, before moving back to New York City for a six-year double residency in psychiatry and neurology at NYU-Langone Medical Center, where she trained at NYU-Langone, Bellevue Hospital, the Manhattan Veterans Administration, Manhattan State Psychiatric Hospital, and Lenox Hill Hospital.

Upon completion of the double residency in 2010, she completed a one-year fellowship in autonomic disorders at the NYU Dysautonomia Center. She provided clinical care to patients with autonomic disorders and helped conduct NIH-funded research with the Autonomic Diseases Consortium of the NIH Rare Diseases Network.

Dr. Maloy joined Mid Coast Medical Group Neurology in 2012 and worked as an outpatient general and behavioral neurologist. During her time there she earned subspecialty board certification with the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. In 2014 she joined the medical staff at Maine Medical Center, working as an inpatient neuropsychiatrist on P6 - a medical-psychiatric unit specializing in neuropsychiatric illness. She became the first physician with MaineHealth to hold dual appointments to the Department of Psychiatry and to the Department of Medicine for neurology. Dr. Maloy was appointed clinical assistant professor in psychiatry by Tufts University School of Medicine and was recognized for outstanding teaching.

In 2017 Dr. Maloy opened Portland Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, the first home of Brain Health Maine. In 2023 she became certified as a Nutritarian coach by the Nutritarian Research Institute. In 2025, she expanded, relocated, and renamed her practice. In 2026, she expanded upon her initialpolyvagal studies with Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Research Institute by completing advanced training in polyvagal-informed trauma therapy with Deb Dana, LCSW. Dr. Maloy enjoys working with patients from throughout the state of Maine.

Dr. Maloy is a longtime member of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Psychiatric Association, with whom she is a fellow. She is an active member of the Maine Medical Association and the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians (MAPP), with whom she is an executive council member and chair of the legislative affairs committee. She is also a member of theh Maine Neurological Society and the International Society for Mast Cell Activation Syndromes. Dr. Maloy is a founding member of Physicians for Patient Protection, a national non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring access to physician-led medical care for all patients. She is a board member of the Friends of Little Portion Hermitage, a non-profit that supports the mission of the Little Portion Hermitage in Auburn, and is an active member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.

Dr. Maloy lives in Portland with her family and pets. She enjoys reading about scientific and medical subjects, creative writing, traveling, spending time with loved ones, and engaging in her faith life.

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