UF HEALTH NEWS & NOTES – Scott Teitelbaum, M.D., UF Health Florida Recovery Center medical director and UF College of Medicine psychiatry professor, has been awarded the Pottash professorship in psychiatry in the College of Medicine.
March 14th – 18th was Patient Safety & Quality Week at UF Health. This annual quality and safety event is held each year at a variety of UF Health locations and the College of Medicine with several events that focus on the quality and safety of…
Last night, The Society for Teaching Scholars hosted the Sixteenth Annual Celebration of Excellence in Medical Education Reception in the Steven M. Scott M.D. And Rebecca J. Scott Commons of the George T. Harrell, M.D. Medical Education Building. The following awards were presented to our faculty and residents:…
We are very pleased to announce the Psychiatry Residency Program’s successful outcome in this year’s Match. The match of 12 incoming PGY1s requires a lot of recruiting and support from Faculty, Residents, and Staff. The resulting incoming class is an impressive group of interns for the upcoming academic year. We…
Friday, March 11th the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida held the 10th Anniversary Laressa Gribbons Memorial Lecture at the McKnight Brain Institute in Gainesville, FL. This Annual Memorial Lecture is held each spring and features speakers whose topics focus on depression, suicide and treatment advances in depression.
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) announced today the recognition of Addiction Medicine as a new subspecialty. The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM), a Member Board of ABMS, sponsored the application for the new field to be a multispecialty subspecialty – meaning that physicians certified by any Member…
Richard C. Holbert, MD; Khurshid A. Khurshid, MD, FAASM; Robert Averbuch, MD; Imran S. Khawaja, MBBS, FAASM Schizophrenia is a chronic, disabling condition that significantly impacts social and occupational functioning. Sleep problems are common to the illness, but are often overlooked. Patients with schizophrenia often have a combination of subjective…
Wilmont Gardens at the University of Florida provides fertile ground for meditation, healing and research. See how faculty and staff in the Department of Psychiatry are working with Dr. Tisher and the gardens to help patients from the UF Health Shands Psychiatric Unit. …
Sunday, February 28 Live Oak International held their inaugural 5K to benefit the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). The race was held at Live Oak International in Ocala, FL. The inaugural 5K saw over 600 runners and walkers. The UF Department of Psychiatry was a top sponsor of this…
Brian Cooke, MD Assistant Professor and Course Director for Introduction to Clinical Medicine I and II UF Department of Psychiatry Faculty member Brian Cooke, MD has been accepted into the Faculty Training in Mind-Body Medicine program at the Institute for Integrative Health in Baltimore, Maryland. The April 7th conference…
