Richard L. Shriner
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Richard L. Shriner is the medical director of UF&Shands
Vista Psychiatric Hospital in Gainesville, Florida
. He is double boarded in both Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and has privilages in both psychiatry and internal medicine at the University of Florida
. He has created many patient care programs along with physician care networks involving surgery, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and nursing.
He has over 25 years of clinical experience as a medical psychiatrist. He has been the chairman of a department of psychiatry, has experience in education, and is the author of research articles and chapters in text books . He also heads the 'Living with Food' program at UF which helps people struggling with obesity who need help and who may even be addicted to food.
He writes a monthly article for the Gainesville Today Magazine.
Shands HealthCare
Shands HealthCare is a medical network in north-central Florida, named in 2007 to the U.S. News & World Report list of the nation's top 50 hospitals.-History:William A. Shands was a Florida state Senator, elected from the 32nd District in the mid-1940s...
Vista Psychiatric Hospital in Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...
. He is double boarded in both Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and has privilages in both psychiatry and internal medicine at the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
. He has created many patient care programs along with physician care networks involving surgery, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and nursing.
He has over 25 years of clinical experience as a medical psychiatrist. He has been the chairman of a department of psychiatry, has experience in education, and is the author of research articles and chapters in text books . He also heads the 'Living with Food' program at UF which helps people struggling with obesity who need help and who may even be addicted to food.
He writes a monthly article for the Gainesville Today Magazine.
Education
- Medical Degree from Indiana University
- Psychiatry Residency at The Institute of LivingThe Institute of LivingThe Institute of Living is a mental health center in Hartford, Connecticut which merged with Hartford Hospital in 1994. The hospital was built in 1823, and was opened to admissions in 1824. Eli Todd was its first director. The hospital cost $12,000 to build and could serve up to 40 patients at a time...
at Hartford Hospital - Internal Medicine Residency at the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital
- Fellowship in Medical Psychiatry at Brown UniversityBrown UniversityBrown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...