About Dr. Grace
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Dr. John Grace is board certified in General Psychiatry. He
completed his undergraduate degree at the University of
Illinois Champaign-Urbana graduating Magna Cum Laude
with dual degrees in Biology and Psychology. From there,
Dr. Grace went on to Southern Illinois University to
complete his Master's Course work in History. He continued
at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine for his
Doctorate of Medicine before coming to the University of
South Florida in Tampa for his residency in general
psychiatry.
Throughout his academic career, Dr. Grace has been
involved in the field of mental health. While attending the
University of Illinois, he worked in a long-term care facility
for the mentally ill. In addition, he worked as a resident
advisor for the University. In medical school, he worked for
the Springfield Community Mental Health Center,
performing emergency psychiatric evaluations for the
hospital and outpatient evaluations for the center. While in
residency, he worked for the Bay Pines Veteran's Hospital in
Clearwater as the psychiatrist on-call. He also worked for
James Halley Veteran's Hospital, consulting on psychiatric
compensation and pension evaluations.
In 1999 Dr. Grace won the prestigious Rock Sleyster Award
from the AMA for the top medical students entering
psychiatry in the nation. In 2002 he served as one of 12
Glaxo Smith Kline Fellows in the country.
Dr. Grace has been in private practice in Crystal River Florida
since July 2004. He hosted a weekly radio show in Ocala
Florida from 2006-2007. Sound Thinking with Dr. John
Grace. Old archived shows are available here:
Dr. Grace has also been involved in teaching residents at
the University of South Florida Department of Psychiatry as
well as publishing several articles for the Citrus County
Newspapers regarding mental illness.
Dr. Grace recently published his first poetry book, Poetry For
the Time We Almost Lost. It can be viewed at the following
link and you can listen to a discussion of it below from a
radio interview with Dr. Grace in January 2007. His second
book, The Importance of Being Average, is in the editing
stage.
Poetry for the Time We Almost Lost
