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Dr. David Husted, MDBOARD-CERTIFIED PSYCHIATRIST
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About Dr. David Husted

Dr. David Husted is a board-certified psychiatrist and the founder and clinical lead of Stedfast Psychiatry, a 13-office outpatient practice across Florida and South Carolina. A 2001 honors graduate of the University of Florida College of Medicine who completed psychiatry residency and fellowship training at UF, he treats adults with anxiety and depression in Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens, leads the practice's Deep TMS and Spravato programs, and co-authored 19 peer-reviewed papers on OCD, PANDAS, forensic psychiatry and spine surgery.

Dr. David Husted

Training

Dr. David Husted graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine in 2001 with academic honors, in the top 10 percent of his class. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a master's degree in physiology from the University of Florida, and his early research came out of the university's Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, where he co-authored work on thromboxane synthase localization in the spinal cord and hindbrain, published in Brain Research in 2003.

His path into psychiatry ran through surgery first. After medical school he completed an internship year in orthopaedic surgery, a period reflected in a series of spine papers he co-authored with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation at Yale University School of Medicine, including studies of lumbar total disc arthroplasty and thoracic pedicle screw placement published in Spine and the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine between 2003 and 2006. He then returned to Gainesville for his psychiatry residency at the University of Florida, where he was a fourth-year resident in the Department of Psychiatry in early 2006, and completed additional fellowship training at the University of Florida in 2007.

Dr. Husted was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry in May 2007. He holds an active Florida medical license (ME117718) with no disciplinary history on file, and his National Provider Identifier (1255370235) has been active since 2006.

Career

Florida Department of Health records list Dr. Husted as practicing since 2001. He was first licensed in Florida in 2004 while in Gainesville, and his current license was issued in 2013 when he established his practice in Palm Beach County. He has held staff privileges at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida, and served as Chairman of Psychiatry there. He has served as Medical Director of Palm Beach Behavioral Health since 2014.

In 2021 he founded Stedfast Psychiatry, an outpatient psychiatry group that has grown to 13 offices across Florida and South Carolina. Nine of those offices are in Florida, from Jacksonville to Fort Lauderdale, and four are in South Carolina. Dr. Husted is the practice's founder and clinical lead, responsible for the clinical standards that every prescriber in the group follows.

His own patient care is based at the Jupiter office at 3893 Military Trail, Suite 3, and at the Palm Beach Gardens office at 11641 Kew Gardens Avenue, Suite 209, which houses the practice's Deep TMS center. He also sees established and new patients by telehealth across Florida.

Clinical focus

Dr. Husted treats adults. The largest share of his practice is anxiety and depression, including depression that has not responded to two or more antidepressant trials. He is a measurement-based prescriber: he tracks symptom scores and functional goals at each visit rather than relying on a general impression of how a patient is doing, and he adjusts treatment when the numbers do not move.

He leads the practice's two interventional programs. The Deep TMS program at Palm Beach Gardens uses FDA-cleared transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depressive disorder, and the Spravato program offers FDA-approved esketamine nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression under physician monitoring. Dr. Husted provides clinical oversight for both programs across the practice: he sets the candidacy criteria, reviews cases that fall outside standard protocols, and decides with each patient when an interventional option belongs in the plan.

His membership in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry reflects a long interest in depression and anxiety in older adults, where medical comorbidity, drug interactions and cognitive change complicate what might otherwise look like a routine case.

Leadership and teaching

As clinical lead of a 13-office practice, Dr. Husted supervises the psychiatric nurse practitioners and physician assistants who deliver much of the group's day-to-day care. That oversight is structured: shared screening instruments, defined escalation criteria, chart review and case conferences, with the harder cases routed to him or to the other physicians in the group.

He has served as Chairman of Psychiatry at JFK Medical Center and as an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Miami, where he has led the psychiatry clerkship at the university's Regional Medical Campus. He is a member of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the Florida Psychiatric Society.

Research and writing

Between 2000 and 2008 Dr. Husted co-authored 19 peer-reviewed papers indexed in PubMed. The psychiatric work, most of it from the University of Florida, centered on obsessive-compulsive disorder and its biology: a 2004 review in CNS Spectrums of treatments for refractory OCD, from medication through deep brain stimulation; a 2006 paper in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry on the neurocircuitry of OCD and disgust; a 2007 study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research on whether comorbid tics change the response to an eight-week trial of fluoxetine; and two papers on PANDAS and autoimmunity in OCD and tic disorders, in Advances in Neurology (2006) and the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (2004).

A second group of papers, written with forensic psychiatrist Wade C. Myers, examined serial sexual homicide (Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2006), sadistic personality disorder in adolescent inpatients (Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2006) and the limits of neuroimaging in determining criminal liability (Forensic Science International, 2008). A 2006 study in the Journal of Gambling Studies asked whether speeding is a form of gambling in adolescents. The remaining papers are the spine surgery studies from his orthopaedic years, along with two case reports in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.

The full list, with PubMed links, appears on the publications page of this site.

Outside the office

Dr. Husted is an identical twin and a father of two. He runs daily, skis when he can get to the mountains, and reads science fiction and history. He follows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Timeline

  • 2001Graduates from the University of Florida College of Medicine with academic honors, top 10 percent of the class; begins practicing
  • 2002Internship year in orthopaedic surgery; co-authors spine surgery research with Yale University School of Medicine over the following years
  • 2004First Florida medical license issued while training in Gainesville; publishes reviews on refractory OCD and on autoimmunity in OCD and tic disorders
  • 2006Completes psychiatry residency at the University of Florida; publishes papers on OCD neurocircuitry, PANDAS and forensic psychiatry
  • 2007Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; completes additional fellowship training at the University of Florida
  • 2008Publishes the last of 19 peer-reviewed papers, on the limits of neuroimaging in determining criminal liability
  • 2013Current Florida medical license (ME117718) issued; practice established in Palm Beach County
  • 2021Founds Stedfast Psychiatry
  • 2026Stedfast Psychiatry operates 13 offices across Florida and South Carolina, with Deep TMS and Spravato programs under his clinical oversight

Memberships and leadership

  • American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Florida Psychiatric Society

Affiliations

  • Stedfast Psychiatry, founder and clinical lead (2021 to present)
  • JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, FL, staff privileges; served as Chairman of Psychiatry
  • Palm Beach Behavioral Health, Medical Director (since 2014)
  • University of Miami, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry

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