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The University of Florida College of Medicine celebrates 60th anniversary with two days of events.

  Wayne Lewis Creelman, MD, MBA, DLFAPA   Congratulations to Wayne Creelman, MD, who was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Mental Health Collaborative of Indian River County. Dr. Creelman has been a former CEO, COO, CMO, and Executive Vice President of multiple mental health and substance abuse…

Congratulations to Marika Brigham, Director and Chief Financial Officer of the University of Florida Department of Psychiatry, who was named President -Elect of the National Association of Academic Psychiatry Administrators (NAAPA). She will serve on the board of directors for the year 2016-2017. Part of Brigham’s responsibilities as president-elect…

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…

“I’ve seen in the field more death in the last one to two years than in my whole career,” said Dr. Scott Teitelbaum

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.

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,…

“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.