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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…
The Brainstorm is a bimonthly bulletin of the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida
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, MD,…
“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.
Greg Valcante, Ph.D., director of UF’s center, wants to get the word out to parents who might be interested in participating in the pilot program.
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.
“The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to join efforts by the College of Medicine and the University of Florida to enhance wellness, increase resilience and strengthen compassion through mindfulness practices. Our College motto is to “Learn, Care and Lead” and mindful relaxation skills strengthen everyone’ s readiness to contribute to…
Yarelis Guzman-Quinones, MD and Daniel Pietras, MD We are pleased to announce that Dr. Yarelis Guzman-Quinones, PGY-3 and Dr. Daniel Pietras, PGY-3 are the recipients of a Florida Psychiatric Society (FPS) Alliance Grant. This grant is to assist with attendance…
Richard C. Christensen, MD, MA The Department of Psychiatry lost a key member of its faculty on Thanksgiving Day 2015 when Richard Christensen, MD was struck by a vehicle while on his daily run in Zambia. Dr. Christensen and his wife, Kathy…
The devastation associated with opioid addiction has escaped the relative confines of the inner city and extended to suburban and rural America.What was once relegated to the back burner of public concern has become a top public health priority. William Greene, MD and Lisa Merlo, PhD discuss how changes to…
