Department of Psychiatry Divisions
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida consists of ten divisions. Each division furthers the Department’s three central missions of clinical care, research, and education.
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The Division of Adult Psychiatry provides inpatient and outpatient treatment for people over 18 including comprehensive evaluation and treatment for a wide range of psychiatric illnesses including mood (e.g., depression, bipolar), psychotic (e.g., schizophrenia), anxiety (e.g., Generalized Anxiety Disorder, panic, OCD, Social Phobia, PTSD), and neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., dementia, autism spectrum, impulse control). This division also includes evaluation and state-of-the-art treatment for patients with depression and other disorders including repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and deep brain stimulation (DBS). Clinical trials of new medications and treatments are available as well.
The Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry provides inpatient and outpatient treatment of children and adolescents with psychiatric illness including comprehensive outpatient evaluation, second opinions, psychological testing and clinical care to children, adolescents and school aged young adults, and their families, with psychotherapy, medications, developmental remediation, and behavioral education. These expert clinicians routinely provide evaluation and treatment for patients with complex, co-occurring substance abuse, eating disorders, medical, neurological and other diseases.
The Division of Addiction Medicine provides treatment in addiction and pain management services in outpatient and inpatient settings to both adults and adolescents including comprehensive addiction medicine outpatient evaluation and treatment services including, intensive outpatient programs, tobacco, alcohol, and other drug abuse evaluation, cognitive behavioral and other psychotherapy, treatment of psychiatric co-morbid diseases and medical management of Suboxone® maintenance therapy. This division also provides training in both Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine.
The Division of Forensic Psychiatry originally established in 1988, is the oldest, most experienced provider of forensic psychiatric services in the State of Florida. We provide a full range of consultative services to private attorneys, the courts, various administrative law bodies and governmental agencies, where evaluation, substance misuse, abuse and mental health information are relevant.
The Division of Community Psychiatry seeks to understand how social factors, in concert with other biological and psychological factors, influence the causes, expression and course of psychiatric disorders and to support and improve the practice of public sector psychiatry. The Division includes outreach clinics in Gainesville and Jacksonville and the Center for Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine in Vero Beach. It is also the mission of the division toparticipate in the development of a psychiatric workforce that is formally prepared to enter into public sector settings to provide not only direct care, but to also assume leadership positions as medical directors and administrators, particularly those psychiatrists working with individuals who often suffer from the most serious and persistent mental illnesses and who rely upon community-based, publicly-funded systems of care.
The Division of Medical Psychology is a national leader in the treatment and investigation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Childhood Diabetes, Childhood Obesity, and Pediatric Treatment Adherence. It is the objective of the Division of Medical Psychology to improve the quality of life and reduce the suffering of our patients by the implementation of evidence based assessment and treatments.
The Division of Education and Training provides training to residents in General Psychiatry. We also provide fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. We are adding fellowships in Addiction Psychiatry and Community Psychiatry in the near future. We also provide training in Undergraduate Education, Medical Student Education, and Continuing Medical Education for Physicians.
The Division of Research performs both clinical and basic science research in many diverse areas. These areas include, but are not limited to: autism, Alzheimer’s disease, attention deficit hyperactivity, forensics, neuroimmunology, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, secondhand smoke, and substance abuse and addiction. The department also has research programs in gene-environment interactions in abnormal repetitive movements, dynamic functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), and proteomics.