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2015 Department of Psychiatry Staff Retreat

Friday, July 10, 2015 we held our Department of Psychiatry Annual Staff Retreat at UF’s Lake Wauburg facility in Micanopy. This was a great opportunity for new and existing staff members to meet and get to know each other  through a variety of team building exercises that taught us about…

Drs. Bruijnzeel & Setlow Awarded NIH New R21 Grant

Adrie Bruijnzeel, PhD and Berry Setlow, PhD Adriaan Bruijnzeel, PhD and Barry Setlow, PhD have been awarded a National Institute of Health (NIH) R21 grant entitled, “Lasting Behavioral and Neuroimaging Consequences of Adolescent Exposure to Cannabis Smoke.” According to the…

Congratulations to our 2015 Resident and Fellow Graduates!

On Friday night, we celebrated the graduation of our residents and fellows at the Gainesville Woman’s Club. It was a wonderful event and a great time to reconnect with members of our programs and departments. Below is a list of our graduates and awardees. Thank you to all…

UF Health Shands Hospital | 100 Great Hospitals in America 2015

UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.). UF Health Shands Hospital is named for William Augustine Shands, a Florida senator who attended the University of Florida in the early 1900s. UF Health Shands Hospital opened originally as UF Teaching Hospital in 1958 and was renamed as W.A. Shands Teaching…

168th Annual American Psychiatric Association Meeting

University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry Exhibitor Booth The 168th Annual American Psychiatric Association (APA) Meeting is currently taking place at the Toronto Convention Centre and the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, Canada. The APA Annual Meeting was established in…

Dr. Witter will present his research at the 2015 APA New Research Press Briefing on May 17

New Research: Analysis of Risk Communication on Ebola Crisis Finds Public Could Benefit from Less Assurance, More Empowerment Researchers Daniel Witter, M.D., Ph.D., Kyle Dalton and Joseph Thornton, M.D., evaluated CDC’s communication strategy based on guidelines on infectious disease risk communication developed as recommendations to the World Health Organization (WHO).