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Robert N. Averbuch, MD Alan J. Barnes, MD Lewis R. Baxter, MD Adriaan W. Bruijnzeel, PhD Regina Bussing, MD Josepha A. Cheong, MD Wayne L. Creelman, MD Douglas Davies, MD Gary R. Geffken, PhD Mark S. Gold, MD William M. Greene, MD Susan Hill, MSN, ARNP Jon Hodgin, MD Richard Holbert, MD Jacqueline A. Hobbs, MD, PhD Michelle Jacobs, MD Mark H. Lewis, PhD Yijun Liu, PhD Daniel Logan, MD Ross A. McElroy, Jr., MD Lisa J. Merlo, PhD Sylvia P. Montesinos, MD Drake Morgan, PhD Matthew L. Nguyen, MD Andrew K. Ottens, PhD John M. Petitto, MD Teresa A. Pigott, MD Krestin A. Radonovich, PhD Jerzy Szlabowicz, MD, PhD Scott A. Teitelbaum, MD Herbert E. Ward, MD Tonia Werner, MD Kimberly White, MD

Tonia Werner

Tonia Werner,MD

Assistant Professor

Dr. Tonia Werner

Originally from St. Petersburg, Florida, Dr. Werner received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of South Florida. She attended medical school at the American University of the Caribbean. She went on to complete a residency in Psychiatry at Connecticut Valley Hospital, Yale University. Dr. Werner continued her training in a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Florida. Since joining the faculty in July of 1999, Dr. Werner has focused her clinical work in the Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Division and the Forensic Psychiatry Division. In the inpatient clinic, Dr. Werner has taken on the role of Director of Adult Inpatient Services. In October of 2000, Dr. Werner assumed the position of Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Alachua General Hospital. Her areas of specialty continue to be forensic psychiatry, psychopharmacology, medical student education, resident education, and adult inpatient and outpatient psychiatry. She is Board Certified in General Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Clinical Interests

As Director of the Adult Inpatient Unit at Vista, Dr. Werner plays a major role in the clinical care of patients with acute and serious psychiatric conditions requiring hospitalization. She is interested in a broad array of major psychiatric disorders. She is trained in Forensic Psychiatry and continues to be active in this field.

Her duties include:

  • Responsibility for admission assessments, daily evaluation and treatment decisions and discharge planning for inpatients.
  • Consults to Shands Physical Rehabilitation Unit
  • Director of new inpatient Eating Disorders Program
  • Outpatient medication management clinics.

Research Interests and Scholarly Interests

Dr. Werner serves as an investigator on our inpatient clinical trials.

Educational Interests and Accomplishments

The Adult Inpatient Unit at Vista is a major teaching unit for residents and medical students. Accordingly, Dr. Werner has extensive contact with psychiatry house staff and medical students doing their psychiatry clinical clerkships. She is provides direct clinical supervision and didactic teaching.

Her other duties include:

  • Teaching of Forensic Fellows, including participation in weekly seminars
  • Member of resident selection committee
  • Member, Graduate Education Committee
  • Member, Quality Assurance for Residency Training Program

Leadership And Service

Dr. Werner has primary administrative responsibility for the Adult Inpatient service as well as other medical staff functions for the entire Vista Psychiatry Program in her role as Chair, Department of Psychiatry at AGH. It should be noted that the medical staff at AGH, now owned by Shands, is still a separate entity. As Chair of this body, her administrative responsibilities span psychiatric services at Vista and the separate medical-surgical hospital now known as Shands at AGH. She was instrumental in facilitating the transition from Vista as a community hospital to a University run program. She is credited with increasing the census and decreasing the length of stay at Vista.

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