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Richard B. Wallace, D.O. completed medical school in 1987 graduating from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. A one-year rotating internship in St. Louis, Missouri followed. In 1988, Dr. Wallace began a four-year psychiatric residency program at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita, Kansas completing the program in 1992.
Currently, Dr. Wallace is the general psychiatrist and medical director for the Cowley County Mental Health and Counseling Center in Winfield, Kansas "somewhere over the rainbow". He has used MediSongs and the "traffic light" theory of antidepressants to teach mental health staff and area physicians about psychiatric medications. Former first lady Rosalyn Carter, a diligent advocate for mental health awareness, has her own copy of MediSongs that she has shared with the Carter Center and has reviewed very positively. Current first lady Laura Bush views MediSongs as another means to create more mental health awareness. Medisongs was created for everyone with the goal of greatly expanding the awareness of psychiatric, and other, medications and the conditions treated in an entertaining, fun and memorable way. Lyrics written specifically about the medication and its uses, based on actual clinical experience, are combined with a familiar tune. |