Josepha A. Cheong

Dr. Cheong is Professor, Psychiatry, and Neurology at the University of Florida College Of Medicine (UF COM) and Chief, Consult-Liaison Psychiatry Service at the Malcolm Randall VAMC – Gainesville, FL. She received her medical degree from the UF COM where she also completed her residency in General Psychiatry and a fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is board-certified in Psychiatry and in Geriatric Psychiatry.

Primary areas of focus are education (program development, graduate and post-graduate medical education), ethics, and faculty and leadership development, and professional mentorship. Areas of clinical focus are geriatric, emergency, and consult-liaison psychiatry. More specifically, memory and affective disorders, neuropsychopharmacology, and management of agitation and aggression are within her clinical expertise. An area of particular interest is physician professional development, more specifically: the transition of physician residents to independent professionals as they achieve initial certification and proceed into continuing certification.