Regina Bussing, M.D. - Background

Dr. Bussing, board certified in general psychiatry and in child and adolescent psychiatry, is the chair for the University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. She also is a professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UF. Dr. Bussing completed her residency and fellowship training at the University of Florida and obtained a Masters degree at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Bussing received a career development award in Mental Health Services Research Training through the UCLA Faculty Scholar Program, and subsequently obtained research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health for her work on access to and quality care for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She received the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Schlosser Lewis Award for best published paper on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Academy’s journal in 1997.