Tate Healthcare Staff Bios

Jeffrey L. Tate, M.D.

   Jeffrey L. Tate, MD is a board-certified physician specializing in the treatment of Overweight, Clinical Depression, Anxiety, Headaches, and Attention Deficit Disorder. He has over 20 years' experience in medical practice. His major professional goals are to combine excellence in medical evaluation and treatment with excellence in "customer service."

    He believes in the "customer approach to patient-hood," meaning that you and he are partners in improving your health and functioning. You are always treated with respect and courtesy; as an important Person, not as a “case” or an “appointment.” You are a partner in making decisions about treatment. Together, you and he work to improve your health and to achieve your goals in life.

    Patient-satisfaction surveys (repeated every 5 weeks) show nearly 100% patient satisfaction with Dr. Tate's services. He is one of the few physicians in the world with the confidence to offer a full money-back satisfaction guarantee.

    More generally, Dr. Tate specializes in treating persons who suffer from biochemical imbalances that affect their mental and physical functioning. Medical research shows that many conditions that have been attributed to problems of "willpower" or personality are actually due to biochemical imbalances. This is an area in which most physicians have little knowledge. As Dr. Tate says, "I want to help free patients from the unnecessary frustration and guilt of struggling against their own biology."

    Dr. Tate is clinical assistant professor at the University of Arkansas school of medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (where he scored in the upper 10% of candidates). He is also certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is an active member of ASBP (the premiere organization for weight-loss treatment physicians) and of NAASO (the premiere scientific society for researchers studying Overweight). He has served on the Arkansas Blue Cross/Blue Shield Advisory Committee. He is a member of Mensa.

    He has been in private practice in Rogers since 1993. Until 2002 he also was medical director of two units at the Washington Regional Medical Center.

    From 1983 through 1992 Dr. Tate practiced in Houston, Texas, where he was on the faculty of the Baylor School of Medicine and of the University of Texas Medical School. While in Houston, he completed 7 years of training at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (including his own 5-year personal psychoanalysis). Upon graduation, he was immediately appointed to the teaching faculty of the Institute.

    Dr. Tate graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in the upper one-third of his class. He then completed a 4-year residency at Emory, and was selected as Chief Resident his 4th year in recognition of his clinical and administrative skills.

    When not seeing patients or studying medicine, Dr. Tate can usually be found on the golf course, at the poker table, or reading philosophy.

    Ellen, his wife of 30 years, is a 2nd grade teacher. Together they have two adult children, Andrew and Elizabeth.