UF’s Donn Dennis, Ray Bergeron, Franky So and Nan Yao-Su will be recognized as four of 98 people selected from universities and nonprofit institutions nationally. UF’s Vice President for Research David P. Norton also was named a Charter Fellow.
Psychiatry news at the College of Medicine
Four professors inducted into the National Academy of Inventors
By Christine D. Velasquez, APR • Jan 9th, 2013 • Category: Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Psychiatry, StaffFood for thought: UF researcher’s book lays out evidence for food addiction
By Contributing Writer • Oct 4th, 2012 • Category: From the Lab, PsychiatryUF Department of Psychiatry Chair Mark S. Gold, M.D., co-edited a new book, “Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook.” This book is the first to collect academic essays, written by experts from multiple disciplines, to examine the scientific evidence for food addiction.
UF&Shands Florida Recovery Center opens new southwest Gainesville campus
By Contributing Writer • Jul 11th, 2012 • Category: Psychiatry, StaffThe UF&Shands Florida Recovery Center opened a scenic campus in southwest Gainesville today. The recovery center is home to the largest group of addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry faculty in the U.S.
Mainstream medicine misses cases of substance abuse, fails to match patients and treatment, UF experts say
By John Pastor • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Faculty Recognition, PsychiatryIf addiction is a disease, why do families refer far more patients to specialists and treatment programs than internists, or emergency room physicians or family doctors do?
Faculty member honored with national award
By Jessica Song • Apr 5th, 2012 • Category: Awards, Faculty Recognition, PsychiatryUF COM professor, Rajiv Tandon, M.D., receives the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
UF’s addiction medicine residency training among 10 in nation to be accredited
By Melanie Stawicki Azam • May 4th, 2011 • Category: Event, PsychiatryUF’s addiction residency program is among 10 accredited nationally. New residents will start in July and train at the Florida Recovery Center.
New UF psychiatrist helps impaired health-care providers mend their careers
By John Pastor • Jan 14th, 2011 • Category: PsychiatryA professional who helps physicians get back on track after their careers have been derailed by behavior problems has joined the University of Florida.
Beauty, jock kick off eating disorders week
By John Pastor • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Psychiatry, StaffA series of events are open to all UF students, faculty, staff and the public as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
UF advances work on national obesity epidemic
By Christine D. Velasquez, APR • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Psychiatry, Top StoriesThe University of Florida College of Medicine’s psychiatry department adds new eating disorder and obesity division.
UF, Shands HealthCare plan to go tobacco-free together
By Melanie Ross • Aug 4th, 2009 • Category: Aging and Geriatric Research, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Community Health & Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Physiology and Functional Genomics, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Surgery, Top Stories, UrologyPatients, visitors and employees at the University of Florida Health Science Center campus and Shands HealthCare facilities throughout north central Florida are going Tobacco-Free Together.








