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Dr. Verduin is the Associate Dean for Students and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine (UCF COM). She graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine and completed her residency training and addiction psychiatry fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and a Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the Association for Academic Psychiatry. Her clinical work is currently based at UCF Health, where she provides consultative services on an outpatient basis; she previously worked with Orlando’s veteran population in a residential rehabilitation unit at the Orlando VAMC. In 2007, Dr. Verduin became the first psychiatry faculty member at UCF's new medical school, where she played an integral role in developing the overarching undergraduate medical education curriculum, establishing policies and procedures, hiring faculty and staff, and securing LCME accreditation.

Currently, Dr. Verduin serves as the Associate Dean for Students, a position she has held for more than a decade. In this role, she has focused her attention on growing the Student Affairs Office into a robust unit that oversees the areas of Admissions, Student Academic Support, Student Financial Services, Student Records, Student Services, and Student Counseling and Wellness. Her work in developing a strong career advising program for medical students gained national recognition as the sole recipient of the 2015 AAMC Excellence in Medical Student Career Advising Program Award.

In addition to her roles at UCF COM, Dr. Verduin serves as the Vice Chair for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s Addiction Psychiatry Article-Based Assessment Committee, as a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Addiction Psychiatry Milestones 2.0 Work Group, and as the Book Editor for the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. Additionally, Dr. Verduin is currently serving as the Association of American Medical College’s Group on Student Affairs (GSA) representative to the National Board of Medical Examiners Advisory Committee for Medical School Programs. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Southern GSA, a Past President of the Association of Academic Psychiatry and has served as a member of the Board of Regents for the American College of Psychiatrists.

In addition to being chief of staff and senior vice president at Menninger, Robert J. Boland, MD, is executive vice chair of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the Brown Foundation Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at BCM. He is responsible for the clinical care, research and education provided at The Clinic.

Prior to coming to Menninger, he served as vice chair of education and director of the psychiatry residency program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and as an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Board certified in psychiatry with expertise in medical education, psychosomatic medicine and geriatric psychiatry, he is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he earned his undergraduate and medical degrees.

Prior to joining Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Boland had an 18-year tenure at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, R.I. He developed a special interest in depression resulting from medical illness and, later participated in the National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Collaborative Depression Study. That project remains one of the longest studies of depression to date, for which Dr. Boland has written widely on the influence of depression on medical illness.

For more than 30 years, he has been an active member of the American Psychiatric Association and its Council on Psychosomatic Medicine. In addition, Dr. Boland served as the chair for the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee for the Accreditation Council and is a former president of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.