Ana Turner
Associate Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Dr. Ana Turner's expertise is street psychiatry, treating those experiencing both homelessness and mental illness on the streets.
Biography
Dr. Ana Turner is a street psychiatrist, treating those experiencing both homelessness and mental illness on the streets of downtown Jacksonville. Street psychiatry involves literally meeting patients where they are, with a “mobile” office, finding those most marginalized in our society to treat them in the field. This can involve drawing labs, administering medication, and coordinating wrap-around services to meet their significant psychosocial needs. She brings students and residents to each outing and is the co-director of the Community Psychiatry Fellowship at Sulzbacher.
Areas of Expertise (3)
Street Psychiatry
Homelessness
Community Psychiatry
Media Appearances (3)
The Mental Health Offenders Program at the I.M. Sulzbacher Center
UF Health Jacksonville tv
2024-05-06
The Mental Health Offenders Program (MHOP) at the I.M. Sulzbacher Center, a homeless shelter and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), is the 2024 recipient of the Gold Award for the Psychiatric Services Achievement Awards from the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
How a Jacksonville mental health program is keeping people arrested dozens of times out of jail & hospitals
News 4 Jax tv
2023-02-21
Jacksonville’s City Council allocated $600,000 for the project, and the state of Florida appropriated another $700,000 — that’s a total of $1.3 million to run the program for now. With this money, MHOP is expanding to 40 participants, but that’s still a small percentage of more than 200 people that authorities have identified as eligible. Program leaders say that the cost is relatively low and that they help participants apply for benefits, which offset their living, rehabilitation and medical expenses.
UF psychiatrists deliver antibiotics, surgical supplies to Ukrainian border
UF McKnight Brain Institute online
2022-04-11
UF Health Jacksonville psychiatrists Ana Turner, M.D., and Kitty Leung, M.D., made a whirlwind, weekend-long trip to a Polish city near the Ukrainian border to hand-deliver four large suitcases full of antibiotics, syringes, safety needles, catheters, surgical supplies, germicidal wipes, support bands and gauze to a convent helping Ukrainian refugees of the Russian invasion.
Articles (3)
A Comprehensive Guide to Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics for Primary Care Clinicians
Journal of the American Board of Family MedicineAbirami Krishna, et. al
2024-07-01
We propose a paper that provides education on commonly used long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) to improve primary care based mental health interventions in patients with severe mental illnesses (SMIs) such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorders.
Does Samaritan, a Digital Support Platform, Help Improve Social Determinants of Health for Mental Health Offenders in Jacksonville, Florida?
CureusRishubh H. Shah, et. al
2024-01-25
The objective of this study is to evaluate if access to Samaritan, a digital support platform, improves the social determinants of health (SDOH) needs for patients enrolled in a jail diversion program in Jacksonville, FL. A total of 59 patients who were enrolled in a jail diversion program for homeless mentally ill misdemeanor offenders in Jacksonville, FL, participated in the study.
A street medicine view of tobacco use in patients with schizophrenia
Current PsychiatryJohn W. Figg, et. al
2023-10-22
Treatment of schizophrenia involves multimodal management of a patient’s life, including reducing maladaptive habits that are harmful to health. Chronic smoking in patients with schizophrenia is associated not only with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, but also with poor neurologic functioning, such as significant impairment in attention, working memory, learning, executive function, reasoning, problem-solving and speed of processing.
