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Dr. Peter Gobar, MDBOARD-CERTIFIED PSYCHIATRIST
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About Dr. Peter Gobar

Peter Gobar, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist at Stedfast Psychiatry in Boynton Beach, Florida. He earned his MD at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1994 and completed his psychiatry internship and residency at the Medical College of Georgia in 1998. With more than 25 years in practice, he treats adults with depression, anxiety, work stress, psychosis and treatment-resistant conditions, combining careful medication management with a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach. He sees patients in person and by telehealth across Florida.

Dr. Peter Gobar

Peter Gobar, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist who practices at Stedfast Psychiatry in Boynton Beach, Florida. He has worked in psychiatry since completing residency in 1998, and he has practiced in Florida since 2015. His work centers on adults with depression, anxiety, work-related stress and psychotic disorders, with a particular interest in patients whose conditions have not responded to earlier treatment. He is certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and holds an active Florida medical license (ME124199) with no disciplinary history on file.

Training

Dr. Gobar earned his medical degree at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, where he studied from 1990 to 1994 and graduated in May 1994. He then moved to Augusta, Georgia, for postgraduate training at the Medical College of Georgia. He completed a psychiatry internship there from July 1994 to June 1995 and continued directly into the psychiatry residency program, finishing in June 1998. The Medical College of Georgia program gave him broad exposure to inpatient, outpatient, emergency and consultation psychiatry, the full range of settings in which serious mental illness presents.

He was certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2012. Board certification is a voluntary credential beyond state licensure, and maintaining it requires ongoing continuing education and periodic assessment. Dr. Gobar did not pursue a subspecialty fellowship; his training and career have been in general adult psychiatry.

Career

Dr. Gobar's career has taken him across several states. Over the years he has held medical licenses in Georgia, Arizona, Washington and Minnesota before settling in Florida, where he was licensed in May 2015. That breadth of practice settings, from the Southeast to the Southwest to the Upper Midwest, exposed him to different patient populations, different health systems and different ways of organizing psychiatric care, and it shaped a practical, systems-aware approach to treatment.

In Palm Beach County, he has served as Psychiatric Medical Director at JFK Hospital in Atlantis and subsequently as Medical Director of outpatient services for patients who needed more intensive treatment than a standard office visit provides. Those roles put him in charge of care for patients at their most acute, including those admitted during a first episode of psychosis, a severe depressive episode or a crisis. That experience is visible in his outpatient work today: he is comfortable managing complex cases, he recognizes early signs of relapse, and he knows what the hospital can and cannot do for a patient.

He joined Stedfast Psychiatry, where he practices at the Boynton Beach office on Hagen Ranch Road. He is a participating Medicare provider through Stedfast Medical Services LLC and sees patients in person and by telehealth throughout Florida. He has been accepting new patients at Stedfast and holds a 5.0 rating across 25 patient reviews on Zocdoc.

Clinical focus

Dr. Gobar treats adults. The conditions he sees most often are major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety and panic, stress and burnout tied to demanding work, and psychotic disorders including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. He has a particular interest in treatment-resistant depression and in psychosis that has not responded adequately to earlier medication trials.

His practice is built around careful medication management. He takes a complete history before prescribing anything, uses standardized symptom scales so that response is measured rather than assumed, and orders or reviews laboratory work when the diagnosis or the medication calls for it. He is deliberate about the order in which he tries treatments, and he explains that order to the patient. For antidepressants, that means confirming that each trial was long enough and at a high enough dose before calling it a failure. For antipsychotics, it means pairing symptom control with a fixed schedule of weight, blood pressure, blood sugar and lipid monitoring, because the long-term physical health of his patients matters as much as their short-term stability.

The Boynton Beach office is a certified Spravato (esketamine) treatment site. Dr. Gobar evaluates patients with treatment-resistant depression for Spravato, explains where it fits relative to switching or augmenting oral medication, and oversees the treatment and monitoring plan for those who proceed. Patients who may benefit from transcranial magnetic stimulation are referred within Stedfast Psychiatry.

Dr. Gobar describes his framework as biopsychosocial-spiritual. In practice, this means that a medication visit includes questions about the biological contributors to a condition, the psychological patterns that sustain it, the social pressures of work and family that feed it, and the beliefs and sources of meaning the patient draws on. He does not impose his own views; he asks about the patient's, because they often shape how a person understands illness and what kind of recovery they are aiming for.

Leadership and teaching

Dr. Gobar's leadership experience has been in hospital and outpatient program management rather than in academic medicine. As Psychiatric Medical Director at JFK Hospital and later as Medical Director of outpatient services, he was responsible for the clinical standards of a psychiatric service: admission and discharge practices, medication protocols, coordination between inpatient and outpatient teams, and the supervision of clinical staff. He does not currently hold a faculty appointment or a graduate medical education role.

In his present practice, teaching happens one patient at a time. Patients and families consistently describe him as a physician who explains his reasoning, lays out the alternatives and makes sure the plan is understood before the visit ends.

Research and writing

Dr. Gobar has not published peer-reviewed research. His writing for this site draws on more than 25 years of clinical practice and on the published literature he relies on in his work, including the practice guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, the STAR*D antidepressant trials, the NIMH RAISE study of early psychosis, and the consensus recommendations on metabolic monitoring for patients taking antipsychotic medication.

Outside the office

Dr. Gobar is a man of faith, and that faith informs the respect he brings to his patients' own beliefs. Away from work he values time with family and friends, reads widely, listens to music and keeps a long-standing interest in mechanical things and in computational fluid dynamics. He shares his home with a dog.

Timeline

  • 1994Earns his MD at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
  • 1995Completes a psychiatry internship at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
  • 1998Completes psychiatry residency at the Medical College of Georgia and begins practice.
  • 2005Receives his National Provider Identifier (NPI 1164408761).
  • 2012Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
  • 2015Licensed to practice medicine in Florida (ME124199) and begins practicing in Palm Beach County.
  • 2026Practices at Stedfast Psychiatry in Boynton Beach, a Spravato treatment site, seeing patients in person and by telehealth across Florida.

Affiliations

  • Stedfast Psychiatry, Boynton Beach, FL
  • Stedfast Medical Services LLC (Medicare participating provider)
  • HCA Florida JFK Hospital, Atlantis, FL (has served as Psychiatric Medical Director and as Medical Director of outpatient services)

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