Facts about the Department

Quick Facts and Figures

• Total funding for all active research projects (for entire duration of project period):
$27,903,173

• Types of research projects funded include, but are not limited to:

      • HIV/AIDS*
      • Neuroscience
      • Hypertension and nutrition
      • Schizophrenia
      • Memory disorders
      • Pharmacotherapy and alcoholism
      • Pharmacogenomics and antidepressant drugs
      • Inflammation in the CNS in psychiatric disorders

*Crucial international research on HIV/AIDS is being conducted in such countries as the Republic of Zambia and India (Chandigarh and Bangalore)

• For the 2007-2008 fiscal year, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
   managed a budget of over $23 million.

Faculty

*Total faculty on staff: 262

• Faculty can provide assistance in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Italian and
German

• 71 full-time faculty with primary appointments in Psychiatry

• 48 Clinical faculty

• 23 Research faculty

• 4 part-time faculty with primary appointments in Psychiatry

• 18 full-time faculty with secondary appointments in Psychiatry

• 142 voluntary faculty

• 27 affiliated faculty

Psychiatry Residency and Fellowship Training Program (2008-2009)

*Total residents enrolled: 44

• 44 General psychiatry residents

*Total fellows enrolled: 17

• 10 Child & Adolescent psychiatry fellows

• 4 Geriatric psychiatry fellows

• 1 industry-sponsored Schizophrenia fellow

• 2 Forensic psychiatry fellows

Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) – October 2006-September 2007

• 172 open psychiatric beds, licensed for 239

• 4,954 in-patient admissions

• 34,808 out-patient admissions

• Additional 10,593 out-patients enrolled in Day Treatment Program

• 18,552 patients admitted to the ER

University of Miami Hospital (UMH) – January 2006-December 2006

• 104 psychiatric beds

• 10 north unit 28 beds

• 10 south unit 30 beds

• 9 south unit 24 beds

• 7 north unit 22 beds

• 1,455 in-patient admission in 2006

• 1,224 in-patient admissions in 2007 (January through November 2007 only)