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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
DR. RICARDO GILLISPIE, PHD, ACSW, LCSW
Dr. Ricardo Gillispie received his Doctorate from Jackson State University. 1975 he graduated in the first Masters of Social Work class from the University of Southern Mississippi. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in 1973 in Social Science from Mississippi Valley State University.
He was previously part owner and CEO of Family Counseling Services. PLLC in Meridian, MS; a Private Mental Health Group Practice where he specializes in Marriage and Family Counseling and Cognitive/Affective Disorders.
From 1991 to 2000 he was a Federal Psychiatric Surveyor Consultant for the Center of Medicaid/Medicare Services (CMS). In that role he surveyed private and public psychiatric hospitals in the United States for regulatory compliances.
Dr. Gillispie has served as Assistant Director for Weems Community Mental Health Center where he wrote the initial operation grant and other grants for Weems.
He has authored the book: How to Prevent the Collision of the Two Worlds We Live; by Mulberry, LLC Publisher, 2020
Other Publications include:
Hospitalized African American Men with Mental Illness: Some Antecedents to Service Satisfaction and Intent to Comply with Aftercare. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills, Volume 6, Number 3, winter 2002.
Hospitalized African American Mental Health Consumers: Some Antecedents to Service Satisfaction and Intent to Comply with Aftercare. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Volume 75, Number 2, pp. 254-261, 2005.
He is married to Catherine Nelson Gillispie. They have two children, Dr. Veronica Gillispie, OBGYN and Ricardo Rashad Gillispie with a BS in Computer Science and employed as an engineer with Kansas City Southern Railroad. Dr, Gillispie and his wife have five grandchildren.