Marcia Verduin

Dr. Verduin is the Associate Dean for Students and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine (UCF COM). She graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine and completed her residency training and addiction psychiatry fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and a Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the Association for Academic Psychiatry. Her clinical work is currently based at UCF Health, where she provides consultative services on an outpatient basis; she previously worked with Orlando’s veteran population in a residential rehabilitation unit at the Orlando VAMC. In 2007, Dr. Verduin became the first psychiatry faculty member at UCF's new medical school, where she played an integral role in developing the overarching undergraduate medical education curriculum, establishing policies and procedures, hiring faculty and staff, and securing LCME accreditation.

Currently, Dr. Verduin serves as the Associate Dean for Students, a position she has held for more than a decade. In this role, she has focused her attention on growing the Student Affairs Office into a robust unit that oversees the areas of Admissions, Student Academic Support, Student Financial Services, Student Records, Student Services, and Student Counseling and Wellness. Her work in developing a strong career advising program for medical students gained national recognition as the sole recipient of the 2015 AAMC Excellence in Medical Student Career Advising Program Award.

In addition to her roles at UCF COM, Dr. Verduin has served as the Vice Chair for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s Addiction Psychiatry Article-Based Assessment Committee, as a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Addiction Psychiatry Milestones 2.0 Work Group, and as the Book Editor for the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. Additionally, Dr. Verduin is currently serving as the Chair-Elect for the Association of American Medical College’s Group on Student Affairs (GSA). She is a Past President of the Association of Academic Psychiatry and is the First Vice President for the American College of Psychiatrists.