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.

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…

Dr. Marcia Morris, UF associate professor of psychiatry, tells…

Josepha Cheong, MD Josepha Cheong, MD is the recipient of the 2021 Roberts Award for Inspirational Mentorship in Academic Psychiatry by the Association of Academic Psychiatry. The Roberts Award honors psychiatric educators who have supported medical students, residents and early career psychiatry faculty in their…

Gregory Valcante, Ph.D. The University of Florida Certificate in Autism Spectrum Disorder prepares a range of professionals to help others while advancing their own careers. Here, Dr. Gregory Valcante, a core instructor in the certificate and director of the UF Center for Autism and Related…

The Webb Fellowship Program is designed to support a select number of outstanding advanced residents and fellows in C-L psychiatry at an early stage in their career. The program is named for William Logan Webb, Jr., MD, FACLP, president of the Academy 1986-87. Dr. Webb had an impressive career…

Ludmilla De Faria, MD speaks with U.S. News on a new study examining short-term changes in mental distress following the receipt of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Three of our trainees have been appointed to the Housestaff Council. PGY-4 Meena Nuthi, MD as Co-Chair, PGY-2 Lymaries Velez, MD as Diversity Chair, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow George Teaford, MD, Member at Large. The Housestaff Council was founded in July 2019 to represent Housestaff…

Jacqueline Hobbs, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of psychiatry, discusses the burden of coping with the stress caused by the upheaval of normal life and the need to pay closer attention to our mental well-being.

Carol Mathews, M.D., begins her new role as interim chair of University of Florida’s department of psychiatry today, succeeding Regina Bussing, M.D., who has stepped down as chair after leading the department for more than seven years.