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   <name>John O. Gaston, M.D.</name>
   <title>Professor</title>
   <department>Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences</department>
   <title2>Vice Chief of Grady Psychiatry Service</title2>
   <department2></department2>
   <email>jgaston@msm.edu</email>
   <phone></phone>
   <location>Grady Memorial Hospital</location>
   <education><strong>POSTGRADUATE:</strong><br></br><span>Yale University</span><br></br><strong>Residency:</strong><span> Psychiatry</span><br></br><br></br><strong>MEDICAL SCHOOL:</strong><br></br><span>Yale University School of Medicine</span><br></br><strong>Degree:</strong><span> Doctor of Medicine</span><br></br><br></br><strong>UNDERGRADUATE:</strong><br></br><span>Trinity College</span><br></br><strong>Degree:</strong><span> Bachelor of Science</span></education>
   <clinicalinterests>Psychopharmacology, Cultural Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders, and Depression</clinicalinterests>
   <specialties></specialties>
   <research>Psychosomatic Medicine</research>
   <boardcerts>American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology</boardcerts>
   <publications>
      <ul>
         <li><strong>Gaston, J.O.</strong><span> </span>(Chair) American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting (APA) Workshop: “<u>Empowering Trainees and Guiding Careers:  Mentors and Sponsors in Clinical and Organized
               Psychiatry,</u>” San Diego, CA, May 2017</li>
         <li>Wrenn, G.L. (Author), Howard, J. (Author and Presenter), Kumari, M. (Author), Ede,
            V. (Author), Schwartz, A. (Author), Cuebas, A. (Author),<span> </span><strong>Gaston, J.</strong>, American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, “<u>Difficult Interactions as a Reason for Psychiatric Consultation</u>”, Atlanta, GA, May 2016</li>
         <li><strong>Gaston, MD, J.O.</strong>, Georgia State Bar Association, “<u>Psychiatric Aspects of Chronic Back Pain</u>”, Atlanta, GA, October 2015</li>
         <li><strong>Gaston, J.O.</strong>, Georgia State Bar Association, “<u>Use of Narcotics and Risk Assessment in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy</u>”, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, September 2014</li>
         <li>Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture,<span> </span><em>“Policy to Practice: Challenges for Effective<span> </span></em><em>Mental Healthcare”,<span> </span></em>American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA May 2013</li>
      </ul>
   </publications>
   <awards>
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         <ul>
            <li>Solomon Carter Fuller Award</li>
            <li>2013 American Psychiatric Association</li>
            <li>Heart of Grady Award</li>
         </ul>
      </div>
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         <h3>Professional Societies</h3>
         <ul>
            <li>American Psychiatric Association</li>
            <li>Black Psychiatrists of America</li>
            <li>Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association</li>
         </ul>
      </div>
   </awards>
</profile>