WORK EXPERIENCE:
8/2002-Present: Private outpatient practice in general psychiatry located in Boca Raton, FL. Consultation Liaison at Boca Raton Community Hospital and Boca Raton Rehabilitation Center.
7/2000-8/2002: Staff Psychiatrist, St. Albans Center, Radford, VA. General psychiatry including inpatient, outpatient, Consultation Liaison services, and Medical Director of the Intensive Outpatient Program for treating chemical dependency.
1996 2000: Psychiatry Resident, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. Moonlighting in the outpatient clinic. Research on neuropsychiatric aspects of infant and child personality and cognitive development; cognitive impairment following cardiac surgery; dual diagnosis group treatment (ran a COPAD group); and methadone treatment (utilizing PET).
1992-1996: Volunteer work at various community health care agencies while a medical student at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
1991-Research fellowship in Psychoneuroimmunology, University of Miami School of Medicine.
1990-1991: Technical Specialist. The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami School of Medicine.
1989-1990: Research Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Orlando, FL.
1988-1989: Member of Technical Staff, Modular Computer Systems Research and Development Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
1982-1987: Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Miami Electrical Engineering and Physics Departments, Coral Gables, FL.
1980-1981: Associate Scientist, Raytheon Company, Research Division, Lexington, MA.
BOARD AND CERTIFICATION STATUS:
Board Certified, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Certified in Addiction Medicine, American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Certification in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, New York Medical College.
LICENSURE:
Medical Doctor, State of Florida.
Medical Doctor, State of Virginia (On inactive status as practicing in FL).
COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONAL WORK:
Palliative Care Committee, Boca Raton Community Hospital, 2006-2007.
Member of the Ethics Committee, Carillon St. Albans Center joint with Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, Radford, VA. 2001-2002.
Member of the Utilization Review Committee, Carlion St. Albans Center, Radford, VA. 2001-2002.
Member of the Opiate Abuse Task Force, Carilion St. Albans Center, Radford, VA. 2001.
Chairman/Co-Chairman of the House Staff Organization Committee, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. 1999-2000.
Member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. 1999-2000.
Psychiatry Representative to the House Staff Organization Committee, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. 1997-1999.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
1996-2000: Psychiatry residency, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY.
1998-2000: Certification Course in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
M.D.: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA (1996).
Ph.D: ( Physics) University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (1987).
M.S. Degree: (Electrical Engineering) University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (1985).
B.A. Degree: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (1980).
AWARDS AND HONORS:
“Star Search Recipient”, Boca Raton Community Hospital, Feb 2005.
“Gold Star Thrower”, Mental Health Professional Award, New River Valley Mental Health Association, 2001.
Recognition for Outstanding Service, for work as Co-Chairman of the House Staff Organization Committee, Beth Israel Medical Center, 2000.
Nominee for Best Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Physics, University of Miami, 1986.
Phi Kappa Phi, University of Miami, 1982.
Cum Laude, with Honors in Physics, Brandeis University, 1980.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
American Medical Association; American Psychiatric Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
The Recovery Blues: Prescriptions for the Clean, Sober, and Depressed, (Carter Elliott and Robert Homer). Trafford, (2006).
“Co-occurring Disorders in Older Adults: Treatment and Pharmacological Considerations.” Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, Older Adults Symposium. (2003)
“Dual Diagnosis Evaluation and Treatment,” Lecture given to Senior Psychiatry Residents at the University of Virginia, Salem-Roanoke program, (2001).
"A Neural Network Approach to Understanding The Link Between Classical Psychoanalytic Theory and Modern Psychopharmacology", Grand Rounds at Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, NY, (2000).
"Cognition, Cardiac Surgery and the High-Risk Elderly Patient: Towards a New Rating Scale", (Bogdan Sassaran and Robert Homer). 61st Institute on Psychiatric Services, APA, (1999).
"The role of the monoamine neurotransmitters in brain development and mental illness: A neural network model", (Robert Homer and Bogdan Sasaran). Third International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, (1999).
"A Neural Network Model of Personality", (R. Homer). Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1999. Also presented at IJCNN 99.
"A Neural Network Approach to Understanding Chaos in Personality and Cognitive Development", (Robert Homer and Bogdan Sasaran). 9th Annual International Conference of The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences. Abstract in SCTPLS Newsletter Vol. 6, No. 4 (1999).
"Information in the brain's neural networks: From psychical energy to infons, and beyond", (Robert Homer and Bogdan Sasaran). 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, (1999).
"Algorithm Based Method for Suppressing the Transmission of Sound in a Water Filled Waveguide," (P. Dubbelday and R. Homer). J. Intelligent Material Systems and Structures., Vol. 2 (1991).
"Algorithm Based Method for Suppressing the Transmission of Sound in a Fluid Filled Waveguide," (R. Homer, P. Dubbelday, and B. Park). JASA, Vol. 87 (1990).
"An Analysis of RISC and CISC Multiprocessor Performance with Multiple Buses," (R. Homer and V. Romero). Proceedings of 1st IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (1989).
"A High Availability Real Time RISC Computer System," (D. Gluch, B.Furht, G. Heikkinen, C. Raeuber, G. Spicker, S. Correll, S. Geffin, M. Guerrero, R. Homer, B. Routt, and W. Sitterberg). Internal publication, AEG Modular Computer Systems (1989).
"An Analysis of Multiprocessor Performance with a Single Time Shared Bus," (R. Homer) Proceedings of ISMM International Conference (1988). [Also published in Proceedings of Papers 1988, "AEG MODCOMP].
"The N4 A High Performance Three Dimensional Multiprocessor Computer System," (Author W. Earnshaw/Presenter: R. Homer). WESCON Professional Program Session Record 29 (1988).
"Ultrasonic Attenuation in Nickel and Iron at 9.4 GHz.," (R. Homer). Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (1987).
"Ultrasonic Attenuation in Nickel and Iron at 9.4 GHz.," (R. Homer, G.C. Alexandrakis, and G. Dewar). J. Applied Physics., 61 (1987).