UAB Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology and Director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry F. Cleveland Kinney, MD, PhD, announces the appointment of Fred L. Griffin, MD, as associate professor.

Prior to joining UAB, Dr. Griffin practiced for 20 years in Dallas, Texas, where he was on the clinical faculties of University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and the Dallas Psychoanalytic Institute. Most recently, he was in private practice in Missoula, Montana.

A graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Dr. Griffin completed a psychiatric internship and residency at Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital in Dallas, where he also served as chief resident.

Subsequently, Dr. Griffin graduated from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute in Louisiana, and recently completed a 3-year program in psychoanalytic critical thinking and writing, which was sponsored by the Washington Psychoanalytic Foundation. Dr. Griffin is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Griffin's clinical interests center on teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy, on the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and on the physician-patient relationship in general medicine. His current research focuses on the nature of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process, and on the use of imaginative literature to inform clinical work in psychotherapy and in primary medicine.

He is accepting patients at the Center for Psychiatric Medicine and may be reached at 975-7891 for academic and administrative calls and patient appointments; e-mail flgriffin@uabmc.edu.