Dr. David Panting joined the College of Community Health Sciences in September as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. He also cares for patients as a psychiatrist in the Betty Shirley Clinic at University Medical Center, which the College operates. Previously, Panting served as medical director of First Step of Sarasota, Inc., in Sarasota, Fla., medical director of the Manatee Memorial Hospital Department of Psychiatry in Bradenton, Fla., and as an adjunct clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pa. He worked in private practice and taught resident physicians at the Manatee Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Residency Program and the Centerstone Psychiatry Residency Program in Bradenton, Fla. His interests include addiction medicine, neuropsychiatric conditions, and general medicine and mental illness.
Dr. Natasha Mathew joined the College of Community Health Sciences in September as an assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine. She also cares for patients as a family medicine obstetrics physician at University Medical Center, which the College operates. Mathew earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Kansas City University in Missouri. She completed her family medicine residency at Deaconess Health Systems in Evansville, Ind., and an obstetrics fellowship at CCHS.