Kent T Mathias

Kent T Mathias, M.D.

Assistant Professor

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

About Kent T Mathias

My name is Dr. Kent Mathias, and I am an assistant professor in psychiatry and addiction medicine and serve as the inpatient attending physician at the UF Health Psychiatric Hospital addiction unit (West). I received my medical degree from the University of Florida after completing my undergraduate education in Georgia where I was a certified firefighter, EMT and deputy coroner. I completed my psychiatry residency at UF where I served as chief resident and was a departmental representative on several committees for the College of Medicine, including the Admissions and Reaccreditation Committees.

I grew up in a medical family with my father being an otolaryngologist who practiced the majority of his time in a small town in Georgia. I got to see the ripple effects that helping people get healthy had on their family and community, which inspired me to want to be a part of something similar. I continuously find it a rewarding and humbling experience to be part of something bigger than myself. I knew when picking a medical specialty, it had to keep me interested and not algorithmic. Psychiatry, in my opinion, is one of the last medical frontiers that is still being explored from a foundational level. There remains so much to be explored and delineated. It is also a specialty that has major ripple effects, talked about above, when we positively affect someone’s mental health. All in all, it is an extremely rewarding specialty.

It’s important to me that my patients know I treat each one of them like I would a family member and do my best to practice within the guidelines of the latest evidence-based literature. I am currently working on research for toxilogical forensic drug testing.

I have special expertise in treating patients for substance induced psychosis, substance induced mood disorders, mood disorders, alcohol and drug detoxification, medication assisted therapy for opiate and alcohol use disorders, dual diagnosis (mental health and addiction patients) and professional health.

When I’m not working, I enjoy running, traveling and eating good food.

Accomplishments

Member
2022 · Gold Humanism Honor Society

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2023-2024
BMS6813 Intro Clin Med 3
2023
BMS6021 Pain Intensive
2024
PAS5020 Intro to Medicine 2

Board Certifications

  • Florida State Psychiatry License
    Florida Board of Medicine

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Adult Psychiatry
Areas of Interest
  • Alcohol use disorder
  • Alcohol withdrawal
  • Cocaine intoxication
  • Cocaine withdrawal
  • Depression
  • Generalized anxiety disorder
  • Marijuana intoxication
  • Methamphetamine overdose
  • Opiate and opioid withdrawal
  • Opioid intoxication
  • Substance use disorder

Publications

2024
Pain Predicts Dropout from Substance Use Treatment.
Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. [DOI] 10.15288/jsad.23-00099. [PMID] 38206669.
2024
Urine and hair drug test results associated with daily consumption of codeine-predominant poppy seed food products.
Journal of analytical toxicology. 48(1):27-36 [DOI] 10.1093/jat/bkad083. [PMID] 37987376.
2010
A Preliminary Analysis of Ontogenetic Changes in Cranial Architecture and Mandibular Geometry During the Larval Development of Dytiscus Carolinus Aube (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Dytiscinae).
Georgia Journal of Science. 70(2):347-354 [DOI] 10.1649/0010-065X-70.2.347.

Education

Residency, Psychiatry
2020-2023 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Residency, Anesthesia
2016-2018 · Yale New Haven Hospital
Medical Degree
2016 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Bachelor of Science
2011 · Georgia College & State University

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 265-4357
Emails:
Business:
kmathias@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO BOX 100256
Dept of PSY
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
4101 NW 89th Blvd
Gainesville FL 32606