Severe Depression Program

Depression Evaluation and Treatment

for appoint please call 352-265-HELP(4357)

The University of Florida (UF) Department of Psychiatry offers programs for patients of all ages with depression, complex mood disorders and dual disorders.  We treat patients from physicians from all over Florida and the nation.  Depressed patients are evaluated by double and triple boarded experts in psychiatry, neurosurgery and internal mediince.  UF’s depression experts are all practicing academic psychiatrists treating patient and teaching psychiatry to to the UF medical students, residents and fellows.  They bring over 150 years of experience in the evaluation and treatment of depression.  As the state’s leading academic medical center patients with difficult to treat or treatment resistant depression have the opportunity to be evaluated by leaders in medicine, neurology, endocrinology and other medical specialties with access to UF’s advanced imaging and diagnostic testing.  UF pioneered TMS and also operates the largest ECT center in the state.  Drs. Solomon, Holbert and Khurshid have the most ECT-TMS experience in the state of Florida.  UF is a leader in pharmacutical and non-pharmacutical treatments of depression.  To schedule an appointment to our depression clinic please call 352-265-HELP(4357).

Depression Experts:

Hebert Ward, M.D. 

Co-chairman of the Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Internal Medicine

 

 

 

 

Richard Shriner, M.D.

Psychiatry

Internal Medicine

 

 

 

 

Kimberly White, M.D. 

Adult Psychiatry

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Addiction Medicine

 

 

 

Louis Solomon, M.D. 

Psychiatry

Neurosurgery

 

 

 

 

Richard Holbert, M.D. 

Psychaitry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Khurshid A. Khurshid, M.D. 

Psychiatry

Internal Medicine

Sleep Medicine

 

 

Locations:

UF Psychiatric Hosital

Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

 

 

 

 

 

Shands Medical Plaza

Out-Patient Psychiatry

 

 

 

Psychiatry at Springhill

Out-Patient Psychiatry and TMS