Uma Suryadevara

Uma Suryadevara, M.D.

Associate Professor

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

Accomplishments

Carlos E. Muniz, MD Mentor Award
2018 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Exemplary Teacher Award
2018 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Fellow
2017 · American Psychiatric Association
Exemplary Teacher of the Year
2014-2015 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Buck Ruffin Award for ‘Best Teacher of the Year’
2014 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Quality Improvement Project, Third Place
2014 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Exemplary Teacher of the Year
2013 · University of Florida, College of Medicine
Resident Teacher of the Year
2013 · Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Best Psychiatry Oral Presentation, “Impact of psychiatric care on perinatal mood disorders”
2010 · Kalamazoo Community Medical Health and Sciences

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2020-2023
MDU4031 Medicine and the Law
2020-2022
MDU4061 Introduction to Medical Bioethics
2018
MDC7830 Psychiatry Clerkship
2018
MDT7840 Elect Top/Psychiatry
2021-2022
MDU4001 Introduction to Medical Science Seminar 1
2022-2023
GMS6757 Introduction to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Clinical and Mechanistic Principles

Board Certifications

  • Adult Psychiatry
    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Geriatric Psychiatry
    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Psychiatry
Subspecialties
  • Adult Psychiatry
  • Geriatric Psychiatry
Areas of Interest
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Memory loss

Publications

2022
Suicidal Ideation and Suicide-Attempt-Related Hospitalizations among People with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias in the United States during 2016-2018.
Journal of clinical medicine. 11(4) [DOI] 10.3390/jcm11040943. [PMID] 35207214.
2021
Mood Disorders.
Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.). 27(6):1712-1737 [DOI] 10.1212/CON.0000000000001051. [PMID] 34881733.
2021
Psychosis.
Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.). 27(6):1682-1711 [DOI] 10.1212/CON.0000000000001013. [PMID] 34881732.
2021
Training hospital inpatient nursing to know (THINK) delirium: A nursing educational program.
Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.). 42(1):16-20 [DOI] 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2020.10.018. [PMID] 33197702.
2020
Are Patients With Schizophrenia Better Off With Lifetime Antipsychotic Medication?: Replication of a Naturalistic, Long-Term, Follow-Up Study of Antipsychotic Treatment.
Journal of clinical psychopharmacology. 40(2):145-148 [DOI] 10.1097/JCP.0000000000001171. [PMID] 32142495.
2020
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses and zebras: The importance of a wide differential when it comes to frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
Asian journal of psychiatry. 47 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajp.2019.101875. [PMID] 31775108.
2018
Decriminalization of Attempted Suicide across Asia- It Matters!
Asian journal of psychiatry. 35:A2-A3 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajp.2018.06.001. [PMID] 29941142.
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
Pros and Cons of Medical Cannabis use by People with Chronic Brain Disorders.
Current neuropharmacology. 15(6):800-814 [DOI] 10.2174/1570159X14666161101095325. [PMID] 27804883.
2017
Psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrinology of schizophrenia: Back to the future.
Asian journal of psychiatry. 26:A1-A2 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajp.2017.03.027. [PMID] 28483104.
2016
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Use in the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Brief Review.
Psychiatric annals. 46(11):642-646 [PMID] 27885309.
2015
Delirium Associated With Memantine Use in a Patient With Vascular Dementia.
Journal of clinical psychopharmacology. 35(6):736-7 [DOI] 10.1097/JCP.0000000000000420. [PMID] 26448402.
2015
Lurasidone in the treatment of schizophrenia: a critical evaluation.
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy. 16(10):1559-65 [DOI] 10.1517/14656566.2015.1058780. [PMID] 26111577.
2015
Opiate Use Disorders and Pain in the Elderly: Integrating Care With the Pain Specialist
The American Journal Of Geriatric Psychiatry. 23(3, S):S39-S40
2015
Psychiatry is a clinical neuroscience, but how do we move the field?
Asian journal of psychiatry. 17:135-7 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajp.2015.08.013. [PMID] 26419193.
2014
Antipsychotic treatment of schizophrenia: an update.
Asian journal of psychiatry. 11:3-7 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajp.2014.08.002. [PMID] 25216917.

Grants

Sep 2021 ACTIVE
Defining Targets for Tic Detection and Suppression in Tourette Syndrome Deep Brain Stimulation
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS

Education

Fellowship – Geriatric Psychiatry
2011 · Stanford University
Residency – Psychiatry
2010 · MSU KCMS
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
2001 · Mysore University
Doctor of Medicine
1994-2000 · Adichunchanagri Institute of Medical Sciences

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 265-4357
Emails:
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 100256
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
1601 SW ARCHER RD
VAMC
GAINESVILLE FL 326081135