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Richard C. Christensen, MD, MA, is currently Professor and Chief of the Division of Public Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. His long-standing clinical involvements as an academic community psychiatrist have been directed toward developing and providing psychiatric services to underserved populations through academic-public sector liaisons. He currently directs a clinic for homeless persons at a large urban shelter in Jacksonville, is involved in a psychiatric outreach initiative to those individuals living on the streets, and also oversees an integrated psychiatry-primary care initiative based at the UF&Shands Community Health and Family Medicine clinic.
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He obtained an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Rutgers University, an MA in Philosophy (Medical Ethics) from Georgetown University and his MD from Wright State University. During his residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Florida, he was selected as an APA/Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellow in Public Psychiatry. Upon completion of his residency training in 1994 he remained on faculty to develop a program in community psychiatry. During the past two years he has also been involved in developing and administering a Fellowship in Community Psychiatry that combines a two year clinical training in public sector psychiatry with attainment of the MPH from the University of Florida’s College of Public Health and Health Professions.
He has published over seventy articles, book chapters and reviews on topics related to community psychiatry, medical ethics, access to health care for the poor and underserved, medical education, and clinical psychiatry. He continues to present annually at the IPS in these particular areas of interest and has been a member of the AACP since 1992. |
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