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B.A. Yale University
M.D. University of Florida
Residency: University of Louisville
Child Fellowship: University of Louisville
Research Fellowship: Yale Child Study Center
Daniel M. Tucker, MD is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Chief of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Tucker graduated from Yale University before attending medical school at the University of Florida. He completed his residency and a fellowship in Child Psychiatry at the University of Louisville, and was an NIMH postdoctoral research fellow in Child Psychiatry at Yale University’s Yale Child Study Center.
He developed his research interests and received a Stanley Grant to evaluate and study the role of infectious diseases in OCD, autism, and other childhood psychiatric diseases. Dr. Tucker has taught psychiatrists how to be excellent, compassionate and empathic child psychiatrists at the University of Louisville, Yale and now the University of Florida.
As Chief of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at his medical alma mater, he asserts a wealth of experience in general child& adolescent psychiatry at all levels of the continuum of care, and brings his dedicated mission of keeping the best of old psychiatry(talking and listening) to the best of new psychiatry (modern diagnostics, psychopharmacology, inter-disciplinary collaboration, historic-socio-anthropologic perspectives, and a pragmatic, non-dogmatic approach) to the treating of children, adolescents, and their families.
His current research interests include post infectious, immunologic aspects of psychiatry, neuroimaging, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette's disorder, ADHD, and the Autism spectrum of disorders. In his commitment to teaching the next generation of psychiatrists and nurturing in them the truest flame of his accumulated expertise, he brings dedication to leaving no effort unspent helping his patients.
Associate Professor
Chief, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Feng Luo, James F. Leckman, Liliya Katsovich, Diane Findley, Heidi Grantz, Daniel M. Tucker, Paul J. Lombroso, Robert A King, and Debra Bessen, “Prospective Longitudinal Study of Children with Tic Disorders and/or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Relationship of Symptom Exacerbations to Newly Acquired Streptococcal Infections” Pediatrics: 2004; 113; e578-e585.
Peterson, BP, Leckman, JF, Tucker, D, et al, “Preliminary Findings of Antistreptococcal Antibody Titers and Basal Ganglia Volumes in Tic, Obsessive-compulsive, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders,” Arch Gen Psychiatry 57:364-372, 2000
Marques Dias M, Mercadante M, Tucker D, Lombroso P (1997) Sydenham's chorea: a paradigm of neuropsychiatric autoimmune disorder. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 20:809‑820.
Tucker DM, Leckman JF, Scahill L, et al, “A Putative Post streptococcal Case of OCD with Chronic Tic Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified,” (J. Amer. Acad. Child and Adolesc. Psych., 35:1684-1691, 1996.
Tucker DM, Leckman JF, Lombroso P (Abstr., May 1996), Role of anti-streptococcal antibodies cross reactive to brain in neuropsychiatric disorder, Journal of Neurovirology.
Peterson, B.P. and Tucker, D.M. "Neuroimaging in Child Psychiatry," (chapter) in Melvin Lewis (ed.), Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1996.
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