Dr. Homer's CV
Robert M. Homer, M.D., Ph.D.
7100 W. Camino Real, suite 404
Boca Raton, FL 33433
(561) 392-3557
Curriculum Vita
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2024-Present: Obesity Medicine. Treating many existing patients in private practice who also qualified for weight management.
2022-Present: Locus Tenens Mor Mindful, part-time, psychiatric medicine management.
2002-Present: Private outpatient practice in general psychiatry located in Boca Raton, FL. Consultation at Boca Raton Regional Hospital (previously known as Boca Raton Community Hospital) and various SNFs. More recently has added obesity medicine to practice treating many existing patients who qualified for weight management.
2016-2019: Part-time Staff Psychiatrist at Douglas Gardens Community Mental Health Center, Miami Beach, Florida. Duties included general outpatient psychiatry, assisting the administration in reviewing documents and policies for the medical department as related to the process for the agency to apply for CARF accreditation (these policies related to the training, practices, and overall process in providing psychiatric care). In addition, supervised a nurse Practitioner.
2012-2013: Part-time Staff Psychiatrist at South County Mental Health, Delray Beach, Florida. Responsibilities included outpatient and coverage of the Crisis Stabilization Unit.
2008-2011: Part-time Staff Psychiatrist at the Guidance Care Centers in Marathon, and Key West, Florida. Responsibilities included outpatient and coverage of the Crisis Stabilization Unit.
2000-2002: 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:
2024-Present: Diplomate-American Board of Obesity Medicine.
2001-Present: Diplomate in the specialty of Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
2009-2012: American Board of Addiction Medicine
2002-2009: American Society of Addiction Medicine
LICENSURE:
Medical Doctor, State of Florida.
Medical Doctor, State of Virginia (On inactive status as practicing in FL).
COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONAL WORK:
Member of the Bio-Ethics Committee, Boca Regional Hospital, 2008-2017.
Palliative Care Committee, Boca Raton Community Hospital, 2006-2007.
Member of the Ethics Committee, Carilon St. Albans Center joint with Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, Radford, VA. 2001-2002.
Member of the Utilization Review Committee, Carilion 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:
2024: Successfully completed the Strategic Centre for Obesity Professional Education programme.
2024: Certified Nutrition Coach conferred by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM).
2024: NASM Certified Personal Trainer. Accredited by NCCA (National Commission for Certifying Agencies).
2024: Certified Adaptive Personal Trainer/SE Adaptive Special Needs Trainer.
2016: Certificates of Achievement Levels I-III, Canopy Medical Spanish
2011: Certificate of Completion with Distinction, Master Psychopharmacology Program, Neuroscience Education Institute.
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:
Obesity Medicine Association. The Obesity Society. American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
"Psychiatric Approach in Management of Coexisting Vision Impairment and Depression" presented as an invited speaker at the World Ophthalmology Conference in 2012.
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).
TEACHING:
Honorary Clinical Instructor (in Boca Raton), Walden University (Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner student practicum, spring semester 2021).
Preceptor (in Boca Raton) for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner student, University of South Alabama, fall semester 2020.
