George Teaford, MD

Dr. Teaford completed his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a bachelors in Psychology with honors. He then completed his premedical coursework at Santa Monica College, while employed as a research coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, contributing to research on a treatment intervention being developed for low frequency drug users at risk for addiction. Dr. Teaford also spent a year working as an operating room assistant at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, GA.

He earned his medical degree at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, GA, then moved to Gainesville, FL to complete his psychiatry residency, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training at UF. As a trainee, he engaged in a wide range of professional activities from co-authoring poster presentations and housestaff lectures, to participation in institutional and professional organization committees. After graduation, he joined the UF Department of Psychiatry faculty as an assistant clinical professor. In this role, he supervises resident and fellow clinics, oversees an early psychosis inpatient treatment team at the Shands Psychiatric Hospital, and has a faculty practice that he hopes to grow into a comprehensive first episode psychosis treatment program in the coming years.