The University of Florida College of Medicine’s psychiatry department adds new eating disorder and obesity division.
Psychiatry news at the College of Medicine
UF advances work on national obesity epidemic
By Christine Velasquez • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Psychiatry, Top StoriesUF, 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.
Shands at UF ranks as one of ‘America’s Best Hospitals’
By Christine Velasquez • Jul 22nd, 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, UrologyU.S. News Media Group’s 2009 edition of America’s Best Hospitals lists Shands at UF among top 50 best hospitals.
UF’s chief of addiction medicine discusses prescription drug misuse
By John Pastor • Jul 8th, 2009 • Category: Pediatrics, Psychiatry, StaffWith attention surrounding Michael Jackson’s death turning toward prescription drug use, UF addiction specialist Dr. Scott Teitelbaum speaks with national radio host Bill Bennett about the rise of pain medication misuse in America.
New UF psychiatry center opens
By John Pastor • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Event, PsychiatryThe new Springhill Health Center complements psychiatry department activities at the McKnight Brain Institute and Health Science Center.
Wrong type of help from parents could worsen child’s OCD
By April Frawley Birdwell • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Psychiatry, Top StoriesSoothing anxiety and helping with behaviors linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder could lead to more severe symptoms in children.
Psychiatrists open Springhill facility
By Christine Velasquez • May 19th, 2009 • Category: Event, PsychiatryFaculty members from the department of psychiatry began seeing patients and conducting research this week in a new, 10,000-square-foot facility on Northwest 39th Avenue.






