Ed Frontera, MA

Understanding Esports

Daniel Hernandez, JD

Keeping Your Medical License: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Disciplinary Action By the Florida Board of Medicine

Daniel Hernandez is a partner in the Tampa office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he practices general administrative law and is a member of the Corporate Practice Group. Daniel has focused his practice on assisting companies and individuals in their dealings and engagements with Florida administrative agencies, including the Florida Department of Health, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Prior to joining the firm, Daniel served as general counsel to the Florida Department of Health. This professional experience provided him with a unique understanding of the regulatory environment in which our clients operate. He has represented pharmacies, health care providers and facilities, general contractors, hotels, restaurants, bars, catering companies, technology companies and other professional licensees. Daniel has significant experiencing litigating before the Division of Administrative Hearings and representing clients before professional boards.  He has personally handled litigation matters involving professional license denials, professional license discipline, challenges to the validity of agency rules or proposed rules, bid protests, and government contract disputes.

Daniel has strong connections within many state agencies, and can assist clients with all types of licensing and permitting issues, from initial licensing or permitting to professional license defense. Daniel also represents practitioners before the Professionals Resource Network and the Intervention Project for Nurses, and handles matters involving Stark Law and Anti-kickback compliance, HIPAA and HITECH compliance, fraud and abuse compliance, and medical malpractice.

France Leandre, MD

“What can I do?”: Identification, Assessment, and Intervention of Domestic Violence

Dr. France Leandre is a current PGY-4 and an upcoming faculty member at North Florida Psychiatry Clinic in Gainesville, FL. She is currently serving as a chief resident at the University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME (Gainesville) Program. She has developed and presented lectures to other residency programs on the treatment of agitation and postpartum mental illnesses. So far, she has completed multiple research studies on parental leave in residency, LGBTQ+ education, and Emergency Treatment Orders. She has won multiple awards such as the Nyapati Rao and Francis Lu International Medical Graduate (IMG) Fellowship from AADPRT, the  Resident Teacher of the Year,  The Resident of the Year, the  Area Five Resident Fellow Member Poster Award from APA, and the John E. Adams Poster Competition from FPS.  Dr. Leandre enjoys teaching but most of all enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 kids. 

David Martinez Garza, MD

Prescribing Controlled Substances in 2021: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic 

David Martinez Garza is a current PGY-3 and rising Chief Resident at the University of Miami whose interests lie in addiction psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, psychotic-spectrum disorders, Alzheimer's disease, and neuroimaging (structural and functional).

Elizabeth Melzer, MD

Prevention of Medical Errors

Dr. Elizabeth Melzer is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine (USFCOM), Department of Internal Medicine, the Assistant Chief Hospitalist for Patient Safety at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital (JAHVA), Co-Program Director for the Chief Residency in Quality and Safety program at JAHVA, a High Reliability Organization Master Clinical Team Trainer and Coach, and the Faculty Advisor for USF Health’s Healthcare Improvement Group (an Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School Chapter).  She completed a Chief Residency in Quality and Safety, earned Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification,  is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), and is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians (FACP).  Dr. Melzer completed all her education and Internal Medicine residency training at USF and enjoys her roles as mentor and intern coach.  She is a hospital leader in patient safety and quality improvement which is reflected in involvement with a variety of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (QI) efforts in multiple departments.  She has developed educational curricula for patient safety and quality improvement, with specific attention to the Second Victim Effect, Root Cause Analyses, Just Culture, human fallibility and development of safer processes, cognitive biases, communication errors, and changing the mentality of Morbidity & Mortality conference.   She has developed and implemented a coaching program for trainees who have Second Victim Effect.  She is proud to have partnered with VA Geriatric Psychiatrists to publish a QI project to reduce dehydration in patients hospitalized in the Geriatric Psychiatry Unit. 

Greg Sullivan, MD, FAPA

HIV in Florida: Management Updates and Neurobehavioral Implications

Greg Sullivan is a graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and completed both general psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowships at the University of South Florida. He currently serves as a staff geriatric psychiatrist providing inpatient consultation-liaison services within the medical, surgical, intensive care, and rehabilitative units of the James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry with the University of South Florida, with faculty positions in the general, geriatric, addiction, and forensic psychiatry programs, and he serves as program director for the geriatric psychiatry fellowship. Dr. Sullivan’s clinical and academic interests include the overlapping specialties of geriatric and consult psychiatry, particularly as these relate to advanced assessments of decision making capacity, assessment and management of complex delirium, and care of aging LGBT patients.

Robert Jon Waldinger, MD

Finding a Home in Two “Impossible” Practices: Meditation and Psychodynamic Therapy

Dr. Robert Waldinger is a Professor of Psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School, Director of the MGH Center for Psychodynamic Therapy, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest longitudinal studies of adult life ever done. His research focuses on the lifetime predictors of healthy adult development, studying 2 groups of men recruited as teenagers from Harvard College and from Boston inner city neighborhoods, and who have been part of the Study for more than 80 years. The Study has now incorporated the children of the original participants and will soon include grandchildren. His 2015 TED talk about the Study has been viewed by more than 36 million people and is one of the 10 most viewed TED talks of all time.  Dr. Waldinger received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and he teaches Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents. He is the author of 2 books and numerous research publications about lifespan development. He is the founder and co-director of the MGH/McLean Program in Psychodynamics, a program that offers psychiatry residents in-depth teaching in the theory and practice of psychodynamic psychiatry. He also practices and teaches Zen meditation.