Media contact: Anne DeLotto Baier, USF Health Sciences Public Affairs, 813-974-3300 or abaier@hsc.usf.edu
USF offers free Mental Health Awareness Month lecture series
Tampa, FL (April 26, 2005) – May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The University of South Florida Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine will offer a free community lecture series on a variety of mental health topics throughout May.
All presentations by USF faculty will be Wednesday evenings, 6 to 8 p.m., at the USF Psychiatry Center, 2nd floor conference room, 3515 E. Fletcher Ave. in Tampa. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP at 813-974-6967.
- May 4 -- "Raising an Emotionally Stable Child," by Berney Wilkinson, school psychologist.
- May 11 – "Latest Advances in Anxiety and Depression Treatment," by Dr. John Zak and Dr. Carlos Santana, associate professors of psychiatry.
- May 18 – "Body & Mind: Behavior, Emotions and Physical Well-Being," by Dr. Francisco Fernandez, professor and chairman of psychiatry.
- May 25 – "Mental Health Issues in the Elderly," by Dr. Ashok Raj, professor of psychiatry.
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Responding to demand from Tampa's community leaders, the University of South Florida College of Medicine was established by the Florida Legislature in 1965. Part of the USF Health Sciences Center, doctors and researchers were awarded $116.6 million in grants and contracts last year. Providing advanced medical care, USF Physicians Group at the College of Medicine is the largest doctor group in West Central Florida offering expert medical care throughout Tampa Bay's finest hospitals such as Tampa General Hospital, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Moffitt Cancer Center and All Children's Hospital. With a reputation for training high performing clinical physicians, the College is proud that more than half of its physician-graduates remain in Florida to practice medicine.
