Six years ago, Dr. Scott Teitelbaum was awarded the Pottash Endowed Professorship in Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Dr. Teitelbaum utilized this funding to create a novel clinical research program at the UF Health Florida Recovery Center. The program aims to utilize data collected by the FRC research team to both…
Scott Alan Teitelbaum, MD has been awarded the Pottash Professorship in the Department of Psychiatry. Established in 1991 by Carter A. Pottash, MD, a distinguished psychiatrist and addiction expert, the Pottash award supports a professor in the Department of Psychiatry who is a nationally recognized leader in addiction medicine…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It follows logically: If you are unable to predict how a decision might affect your life, your decisions may be more impulsive. New research from the University of Florida in rats backs that up.
August 2012 We are pleased to announce that on July 11, 2012 we opened the doors to the UF&Shands Florida Recovery Center (FRC) new campus. The campus will be home to our programs for impaired health professionals and others recovering from addictive diseases. The campus, formerly the Marriot Residence Inn, an all-suite…
If 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? Those questions and others were raised by a groundbreaking five-year national study recently released by the National Center on Addiction and Substance…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scott Teitelbaum, M.D., the medical director of the Florida Recovery Center and a University of Florida associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, will speak about the university’s advancements in addiction medicine at the first Mental Health and Substance Abuse Summit in Tallahassee on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The…
