Amy Dryer, MD, FAAP

Dr. Amy Dryer grew up in Maryland, went to undergraduate at Smith College and then taught Japanese at a boarding school in Massachusetts for three years.  While teaching high schoolers, she realized that what she really wanted to do was care for kids, so she attended undergraduate and then medical school at Columbia University in New York City.

After a residency at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, Dr. Dryer was an emergency room doctor, an urgent care doctor and a primary care pediatrician.  During the pandemic, she began teaching primary care pediatricians how to provide mental health care in their offices with The REACH Institute.

In all of this, Dr. Dryer realized that what called to her most is providing excellent care for teenagers, kids with mental health challenges and teens who identify as LGBTQIA+.

Dr. Dryer is a mom of two kids, an avid yogi and yoga teacher, and she loves reading, baking and hiking in the mountains.

Click HERE to learn what Dr. Dryer's favorite kind of reading is!

• Office: LAKE RIDGE
• Board-certified: Yes - The American Board of Pediatrics
• Special Interests: Adolescents, Mental Health, LGBTQIA+.
• Languages Spoken: English and Japanese
• Accepting New Patients? Yes
• TEXT #APPT to (703) 481-8600 to request an appointment

• REACH faculty member Dr. Amy Dryer was interviewed for a REACH produced article published in Psychology Today.
• Link to the article: Sending Kids With Suicidal Ideation to the Emergency Room
• Dr. Dryer taught about Suicide Assessment at the 43rd McLemore Birdsong Pediatric Conference