At A Glance
Health
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH SYSTEM Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Transforming lives through teaching, research and service.
70 full-time faculty
69 active grants and nearly
The busiest psychiatric emergency room in the country
200
$ 14M in annual research funding
inpatient beds
Programs and Areas of Focus: Aging, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Drug Discovery, Genomics, Genetics, HIV & AIDS, Inflammation, Medical Psychiatry, Memory Disorders Center, Psychology, Psychopharmacology, Substance and Alcohol Abuse, Women’s Reproductive Mental Health
current (GME) trainees
90 Administrative and research staff
#25 in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for Departments of Psychiatry across the country
71
20,000
15
annual outpatient encounters
first-Year residency slots
MISSION Our mission is to conduct research that deepens our understanding of the development, pathophysiology, and prevention of psychiatric illness; offer comprehensive treatment and consultation to our patients, their families and the community; and provide outstanding mental health education and multidisciplinary training to the next generation of health care providers and investigators.