Richard C Holbert

Richard C Holbert, M.D.

Associate Professor

Department: MD-PSYCHIATRY
Business Phone: (352) 265-4357
Business Email: rholbert@ufl.edu

About Richard C Holbert

Medical Director, UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital

Director, of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Co-Director, Brain Stimulation Service, Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Holbert was previously the chief of the Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) Team for the UF Health Shands Psychiatry/Medical Inpatient Unit for 10 years. He has also served as the Chief of the Consultation Liaison Service and was the Psychiatry Residency Training Director for 6 years. Dr. Holbert served as Director of Quality Control. He has presented on the use of TMS in Geriatric Depression at the Institute of Aging Research Day.

 

Accomplishments

Exemplary Teacher
2017 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Faculty Enhancement Opportunity Award
2016-2017 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Exemplary Teacher
2016 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Carlos E. Muniz, MD Mentoring Award
2015 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Exemplary Teacher
2015 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Exemplary Teacher
2014 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Leadership Development Program
2013-2014 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Exemplary Teacher
2013 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Exemplary Teacher
2008 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Carlos E. Muniz, MD Mentoring Award
2003 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Teacher of the Year
2001-2002 · Psychiatry Residents Association

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2018
PAS5125 Psychiatry
2018
MDC7830 Psychiatry Clerkship

Board Certifications

  • Psychiatry
    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Psychiatry
Areas of Interest
  • Adolescent depression
  • Depression
  • Depression – resources
  • Depression in older adults
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy
  • Major depression
  • Major depression with psychotic features
  • Schizophrenia
  • Seasonal affective disorder
  • Suicide and suicidal behavior
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Publications

2023
An open label pilot trial of sequential bifrontal low frequency r-TMS in the treatment of primary insomnia.
Psychiatry research. 324 [DOI] 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115194. [PMID] 37054553.
2023
Case report: Rapid symptom resolution of a mixed affective state with high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Frontiers in psychiatry. 14 [DOI] 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1137055. [PMID] 36846231.
2023
Deep brain stimulation programming for intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder using a long pulse width.
Frontiers in psychiatry. 14 [DOI] 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1142677. [PMID] 37457764.
2023
Electroconvulsive therapy use for refractory status epilepticus in an implantable vagus nerve stimulation patient: A case report.
Frontiers in psychiatry. 14 [DOI] 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1126956. [PMID] 36816412.
2022
Repetitive TMS for refractory depression in a patient with a seizure disorder.
Brain stimulation. 15(6):1335-1336 [DOI] 10.1016/j.brs.2022.10.002. [PMID] 36244630.
2021
Depression phenotype identified by using single nucleotide exact amplicon sequence variants of the human gut microbiome.
Molecular psychiatry. 26(8):4277-4287 [DOI] 10.1038/s41380-020-0652-5. [PMID] 31988436.
2021
Left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression in adolescents: a double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 46(2):462-469 [DOI] 10.1038/s41386-020-00829-y. [PMID] 32919400.
2020
Treatment-Resistant Depression in Adolescents: Clinical Features and Measurement of Treatment Resistance.
Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology. 30(4):261-266 [DOI] 10.1089/cap.2020.0008. [PMID] 32315537.
2018
Increased human intestinal barrier permeability plasma biomarkers zonulin and FABP2 correlated with plasma LPS and altered gut microbiome in anxiety or depression.
Gut. 67(8):1555-1557 [DOI] 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314759. [PMID] 28814485.
2018
Opioid Use in the Elderly
. 35(1)
2017
Pharmacotherapy for the treatment of tardive dyskinesia in schizophrenia patients.
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy. 18(10):965-972 [DOI] 10.1080/14656566.2017.1323874. [PMID] 28443349.
2017
Positive clinical response to treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder using dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation.
The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry. 51(6):642-643 [DOI] 10.1177/0004867416682600. [PMID] 27920060.
2016
Sleep and Schizophrenia
Psychiatric Annals. 46(3):192-196
2016
Successful Treatment of a Patient with Generalized Anxiety Disorder using Dual-Site Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
. 3(4):1-3
2015
Rapid Improvement in Chronic Insomnia with Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (D TMS) In A Patient with Treatment Resistant Depression and Insomnia
. 4:57-59
2011
Continuous transthoracic echocardiography in a 93-year-old patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy during electroconvulsive therapy.
The journal of ECT. 27(3):224-6 [DOI] 10.1097/YCT.0b013e318223821b. [PMID] 21865958.
2002
Prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation with preservation of cerebral function in an elderly patient with asystole after electroconvulsive therapy.
Journal of clinical anesthesia. 14(3):234-40 [PMID] 12031760.

Grants

Nov 2015 – Jan 2019
A RANDOMIZED, SHAM-CONTROLLED TRIAL EVALUATING THE SAFETY & EFFECTIVENESS OF NEUROSTAR TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIM…
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NEURONETICS
Dec 2013 – Dec 2016
AN OPEN-LABEL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF THE NEURONETICS NEUROSTAR TMS THERAPY? SYSTEM IN PATIENTS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (MDD) WITH POSTPARTUM ONSET
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NEURONETICS

Education

Residency – Psychiatry
1998 · University of Florida
Medical Degree
1994 · University of Iowa

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 265-4357
Emails:
Business:
rholbert@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 103424
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
1600 SW ARCHER RD
GAINESVILLE FL 32610