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Melinda Fawcett

MIAW Movie Night at the Hippodrome

The Department of Psychiatry and UF Health held it’s second annual movie night during Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) at the Hippodrome in downtown Gainesville on October 5th. As part of activities scheduled for MIAW the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida screens a movie which focuses on…

Mental Illness Awareness Week 2016

October 2nd - 8th is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Join us in shining a light on mental illness and replacing stigma with hope. Check out our calendar of events for MIAW 2016!

Police on lookout for drug 10,000 times more potent than Morphine

The DEA is warning people about one of the most lethal drugs now on the street. "Carfentanil is what they're calling the elephant tranquilizer. In humans, we use Fentanil. It's a more potent Opiod," says Dr. Teitelbaum, Director of the Florida Recovery Center.

Final Week to Make a Pledge -Be the Gator Good and Give

Oct. 8 – 23rd – The University of Florida Campaign for Charities (UFCC) is the official University annual employee giving campaign. All UF, UF Foundation and UF Athletic Association employees can participate by making charitable donations through payroll deduction, cash, check, credit card, stock contribution of this newly created fundraising…

FPS 2016 Fall Meeting

The Florida Psychiatric Society (FPS) 2016 Fall CME Meeting was held over the weekend at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel. Several members of the University of Florida’s Department of Psychiatry faculty and residents attended the meeting which focused on “Foundations for the Future of Psychiatry”. Mariam Rahmani,…

Mental health solutions depend on advocacy, action

“This is the civil rights issue of our generation,” said panelist Rajiv Tandon, a psychiatrist and president of NAMI Florida, speaking at a forum Friday hosted by the Sarasota chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

Recruitment begins for landmark study of adolescent brain development

The University of Florida and 18 partnering institutions today will launch the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. Researchers are targeting specific elementary schools within specific geographic regions to ensure a nationally representative sample, said Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D., co-principal investigator at the UF Health site with Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., founding chair of UF’s department of epidemiology.