David Buxton, MD, FAPA, DFAACAP, FAAHPM

David Buxton, MD, completed his medical school training at Virginia Commonwealth University where he graduated with Honors in Psychiatry. He went to Brown University for his Adult Psychiatry Residency and Harvard Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Hospital for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Buxton became the first psychiatrist to complete the Harvard MGH/Dana-Farber Palliative Care Fellowship. He founded the Center for Palliative Psychiatry. Dr. Buxton started the first palliative care team at a HCA facility at CJW Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. He is triple boarded, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, and a Distinguished Fellow of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In April 2020, Dr. Buxton accepted the position as the Executive Medical Director of Palliative Care at AdventHealth in Orlando, FL during the COVID crisis. He grew the division to 32 interdisciplinary members including APPs, physicians, chaplains, and LCSWs over 8 campuses including the 3rd largest hospital in the USA in three years. He oversaw an ACGME Palliative Care Fellowship for physicians and the first APP Fellowship at AdventHealth. His recent research demonstrated length of stay savings through triggers for palliative care. Dr. Buxton is certified as a MAPP MDMA therapist and Polaris trained Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapist. His interests are in the exploration of overlaps between child & adult psychiatry, palliative medicine, and consciousness.