Meet Jeff Duffey, MD
Jeff is a seasoned psychiatrist, therapist, and author whose career spans inpatient psychiatry, residential adolescent care, outpatient therapy, and academic mentorship. After receiving his B.S. from Davidson College and his M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia, he completed his psychiatric residency at Sheppard Pratt Hospital, where he trained under gifted psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. His clinical work has included long-term work in diverse settings and short-term care in forensic, public health, and community mental health environments. He served as an associate clinical professor at Emory University, Mercer University, and the University of Maryland, mentoring psychiatric residents and medical students.
My training provided me with rare opportunities to learn therapy from experts. I want you to have the advantage of my hard-earned experience and the wisdom that they had first passed on to me.
Meet Barbara Roquemore Ed.D
If I had any doubt about my need for college, a summer working in a hot cotton mill settled it. When I wonder where I got the belief that I could be the first in my family to go to college, I remember my dad. He ran away from his orphanage with his younger brother during the Great Depression to join the circus where he became a trapeze artist. I paid my way through college keeping the books for the service station where I and other coeds, wearing bikinis, pumped gas for tourists going to Florida. After-hours and weekends, I ironed new shipments of clothing for a dress store, was a hand and foot model, and won a beauty contest for prize money to supplement a small acadmeic scholarship. I tell my studnets, "if a poor Appalachian girl with circus roots can complete college, anyone can."
Barbara and I wrote SEARCH together. At 58, my dad became a Shriner clown. Like Barbara 's dad, he grew up during the Great Depression. Dad pushed a mower to cut the lawns of Middle Georgia College during his freshman year. He fell $100 short of raising enough money to return. Even if it meant working two jobs, my dad was determined that his kids would complete college. When I started college, I had turned 17 the week before. I had no idea just how inexperienced, poor, inattentive, and out of my league I was. I did know one thing: I had to make it. My dad was right, Davidson College changed my life. I want you to use SEARCH to open your eyes to what is ahead, so you too will make it.
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