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Congratulations to Our 2018 Graduates!

The department is proud to present our newest graduates.  Our CHP trainees were conferred the Ph.D. degree at the August 10, 2018 Doctoral Degree Commencement.  The Ph.D. is the culmination of years of painstaking work and dedication on the part of our students and their mentors.      …

Doctoral Student, Jessica Zakrzewski, receives poster award for International OCD Conference

CHP Doctoral student, Jessica Zakrzewski (co-mentored by Dr. William Perlstein, CHP, and Dr. Carol Mathews, Psychiatry), and Psychiatry Doctoral student, Christian Archer, (mentored by Dr. Carol Mathews) have received a joint poster award for the International OCD Conference at the end of July. Jessica and Christian co-authored an abstract entitled “Functional Impairment…

MBI director honors Presurgical Anesthesia Center staff for brain health initiative

On June 22, McKnight Brain Institute director Todd Golde, M.D., Ph.D., recognized UF Health Presurgical Anesthesia Center staff for their focus on brain health prior to surgery and for building the Perioperative Cognitive and Anesthesia Network program (PeCAN) during an appreciation event at the College of Public Health & Health…

Doctoral student, Bonnie Scott, receives the 2018 Walter G. McMillen Memorial Award for Parkinson Disease Research from APA Division 20

This $1000 research award was based on Bonnie’s doctoral dissertation, which focuses on cortical and subcortical electrophysiological markers of apathy and impulse control disorders in Parkinson disease, both before and during DBS surgery.  Bonnie is a TL-1 trainee and an associate trainee on an NINDS-T32 for interdisciplinary training in movement…