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Dr. Carr receives FEO award

Brent R. Carr, MD, Assistant Professor Brent Carr, MD has received a Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) award. This award is presented to faculty to encourage applications for creative and flexible faculty development activities, including but not limited to: educational experiences/conferences, work with consultants/experts, time devoted to…

Get Fit Gator Fair

The Florida Recovery Center was honored to speak on the importance of mental health at the UF Campus, Get Fit Gator Fair. Reducing stigma and raising awareness is important to our youth, so they become more comfortable asking for help and getting the services they may need. The…

Dear College Student, You Deserve to Be Happy

With stress and mental health issues increasing on campus, Dr. Marcia Morris wrote this letter of support and hope. Consider sharing this with your college students when they are home for Thanksgiving.

Dr. Mathews is special guest on “in your brain” podcast

University of Florida, department of psychiatry Chair and Director of the Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders, Carol Mathews, MD talks with in your brain podcast‘s Cristina Besosa about anxiety: what it is, how we study it, how to recognize it, and when to seek help for it.

The Fear Facer: An Update from: The Daily

In 2019, Julia Longoria, then a Daily producer, traveled to Nashville to speak with Ella Maners and her mother, Katie Maners. Ella, 8 going on 9, was terrified of tornadoes and getting sick. So she did something that was even scarier than her fears: confront them at Fear Facers camp.

Carol Mathews, MD named chair of psychiatry

After a national search, Carol Mathews, M.D., has been named chair of the UF College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. She steps into this role after leading the department as interim chair since September 2021. Carol Mathews, MD Chair & Brooke Professor A nationally known…

Jo receives NIDA-AACAP award

Young Jo, MD received the NIDA-AACAP Resident Training Award in Substance Use Disorders (SUD) supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the Annual American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Meeting in Toronto. The NIDA-AACAP Resident Training Award in Substance Use Disorder…