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Melinda Fawcett

When It’s Not Just Homesickness

Psychiatry Associate Professor, Marica Morris, MD helps parents identify when there’s something more than homesickness happening and steps to take to help your college student through a mental health crisis in her College Wellness column for Psychology Today.

Addiction Medicine Fellowship

UF Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program is still accepting applications. Our program enjoys national prominence as a destination treatment program; dedicated to our institutional missions of patient care, education, and research. Part of federal efforts to target the opioid epidemic, training slots targeting underserved populations have been funded by the HRSA…

AACAP 2021

Several of the Child and Adolescent Faculty and Fellows participated in the 2021 Virtual American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Annual Meeting. Below you will find a list of the participant’s presentations and posters. Andres Pumariega, MD Pumariega AJ and Rothe E (co-chairs), Rogers, K, Joshi,…

UF Med Talks featuring Drs. Rahmani and Shapiro

Michael Shapiro, MD and Mariam Rahmani, MD will be discussing the effects of the pandemic on mental health in children and adolescents on UF Med Talks on November 17, 2021 from 6:30-7:30 pm. Sponsored by the UF College of Medicine Office of Development and Alumni Affairs and the UF…

Changing Perceptions on Mental Health

As more public figures come forward with their experiences with mental health conditions, it makes it easier for the rest of us to talk about our own. Dr. De Faria talks to WebMD about these changes.

Schubert receives LEAD Nurse Award

Jessica Schubert,ASN, RN, PMH-BC Jessica Schubert, ASN, RN, PMH-BC received the LEAD Nurse Award. Schubert, who was nominated by PGY-2 Megan Single, MD, is a psychiatric nurse at UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital. The University of Florida’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) office allows residents and fellows to…