Known as "Dr. Sooze" to her patients and colleagues, Elizabeth Hodgson, MD, FAAP, retired after 36 years of clinical pediatric practice in 2014 and returned home to New Hampshire, where she currently resides in Andover. "Dr. Sooze" practiced in New Hampshire at the Manchester Hitchcock Clinic from 1987 to 1994 before her sojourn in New Jersey for the next 20 years.
While in New Jersey, Dr. Hodgson served as medical director of two of New Jersey’s Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Centers (RDTCs), multidisciplinary centers for the diagnosis and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Dr. Hodgson helped establish New Jersey's first and only free-standing Child Advocacy Center in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Hodgson served on the New Jersey state and regional child fatality review teams and on multi-disciplinary child abuse review teams. She was on the teaching faculty at two different teaching hospitals in New Jersey (Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, New Jersey).
From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Hodgson served as the New Jersey Child Advocate, a Governor's appointment. The Office of the Child Advocate monitored children in state custody or receiving state services and ensured they received safe, effective, and timely care.
Throughout her career, Dr. Hodgson has been an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) at the local, state, and national levels. She has been involved in policy, advocacy, strategic planning, and governance work with the AAP at the national and state levels.
Dr. Hodgson is a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, both in General Pediatrics and in the subspecialty of Child Abuse Pediatrics. She received her B. A. degree from Mount Holyoke College. She made her New Hampshire medical license inactive in 2024.
Dr. Hodgson served on the New Hampshire Children’s Trust Board from 2015 to 2024. She is currently an active Board member of the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway (SRK), and serves as an alternate on the Andover Conservation Commission.