Faculty

Wayne K. Goodman, MD - Professor & Chairman of Psychiatry

Dr. Goodman is the Director of the UFOCD Program. He provides overall direction for the program which offers comprehensive evaluations and treatment planning. In his clinical work, Dr. Goodman sees children and adults diagnosed with OCD and/or TS who have been referred for expert consultation. Many of these patients are treatment resistant and seeking recommendations on a viable treatment plan. His research interests continue to focus on OCD, TS and related disorders. While devoting effort to the care and study of pediatric cases, he has maintained his interest in developing and testing better treatments for refractory adult cases of OCD. Over the years, Dr. Goodman has contributed significantly to the scientific literature on the causes and treatment of OCD, TS, and related disorders.

Gary Geffken, PhD - Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry

Dr. Geffken directs the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy clinic (CBT) for the UFOCD program. The CBT clinic operates on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, where patients with treatment refractory Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are seen on a daily basis. Dr. Geffken also supervises a clinic that conducts weekly or biweekly outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, and other anxiety related disorders. He treats both children and adults, and has received additional training in exposure-response therapy (ERP) from the Behavior Therapy Institute formed by the OC Foundation (OCF).

Tanya Murphy, MD - Associate Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Murphy, an expert on treating children with OCD/TS, is Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Director of the UF Child Anxiety and Tic Disorder Clinic. She is also the director of the University of Florida's Child Clinic for Anxiety, Tic and Autism Spectrum. In addition to her clinical work, she has conducted extensive research in the areas of pediatric psychopharmacology and infection-related childhood neuropsychiatric illnesses.

Teresa A. Pigott, MD - Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Pigott is Director of the Clinical Trials Division in the Department of Psychiatry. Her clinical interests are primarily in the area of the pharmacological treatment of patients with affective, anxiety, and/or psychotic disorders. The majority of Dr. Pigott's research has been in the area of anxiety disorders, particularly concerning the pathophysiology and pharmacological treatment of OCD.

Herbert E. Ward, MD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Ward is chief of our anxiety disorders clinic. His primary interest is in anxiety disorders, such as OCD. He sees patients with treatment resistant/refractory anxiety disorders and serves as a tertiary referral source for this group of patients. A board-certified psychiatrist and internist, he routinely treats psychiatric illness in medically complicated/compromised patients. His research interests come out of a background in pharmacology and specialty training in anxiety disorders. He is interested in the neurobiology of anxiety and development of new treatment strategies, including combination therapies for optimal synaptic benefit and reduction of adverse effects.

Eric A. Storch, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics

Dr. Storch is chief of Cognitive Behavior Research. His research interests are in adult and childhood OCD, peer relationships, and measurement evaluation. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers focused on OCD, anxiety disorders, and related topics, and made numerous presentations at professional meetings. He has research protocols in the Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Clinic investigating D-Cycloserine augmentation of CBT, and the effect of CBT intensity on treatment outcome. He also has a special interest in the development and validation of OCD assessment measures.

Martin J. Repetto, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Repetto is Medical Director of the Psychiatric Inpatient Unit of Shands Hospital. He is interested in the diagnosis and treatment of mood, thought and cognitive disorders in the adult and geriatric population. In the Psychiatric Inpatient Unit he leads a multidisciplinary team composed by physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. These professionals are dedicated to assist a population of psychiatric patients with severe psychological, social and medical problems. Dr. Repetto's research is concerned with how mental illnesses affect cognition.