Dr. Rex Eugene Taber, MD, FAPA

Expert Publications

• Letter: Procine aortic valves as replacements for human heart valves.
• Letter: Preventing ulcer bleeding in multiple systems failure.
• Hemopericardium and constrictive pericarditis.
• Chronic lung abscess; fifteen years of change.
• Progressive infantile emphysema; a surgical emergency.
• Esophageal motility in cardiospasm.
• Arterial homografts.
• Medico-legal aspects of tissue homotransplantation.
• Management of massive hemoptysis, not due to pulmonary tuberculosis or neoplasm.
• Spontaneous pneumothorax, a review with the results of pulmonary resection in nineteen patients.
• An apparatus and technique for freeze-drying arterial homotransplants.
• Resection and arterial replacement in the treatment of popliteal aneurysms.
• Arteriovenous fistulae and arterial aneurysms of the pulmonary arterial tree.
• Observations on the hemodynamic effects of experimental internal mammary artery ligation.
• Experimental and clinical utilization of a prosthesis for replacement of the trachea.

Media Releases

Get to know Psychiatrist Dr. Rex Eugene Taber, who serves patients in Springfield, Missouri.

A trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Taber sees patients at Cox North Hospital in Springfield, Missouri.

CoxHealth can trace its roots to this Jefferson Avenue address, and the frame house that stood here in 1906, originally Burge Hospital. Today, Cox North Hospital is a thriving hospital with new technology, a growing medical staff, a 24/7 Emergency Department, occupational therapy, a full-service occupational medicine clinic and much more.

With a broad educational background, Dr. Taber graduated with his medical degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine in 1997. He then went on to complete his internship at Georgetown University Hospital in 1998, and his residency in psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2000.

Distinguished as a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (FAPA), the doctor attained board certification in psychiatry and child & adolescent psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). The ABPN is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to promoting high-quality patient care for the public through the initial and continuing certification of psychiatrists and neurologists.

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behavior, cognition, and perceptions. Psychiatrists evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. They conduct thorough psychiatric evaluations, develop treatment plans, prescribe medication, and evaluate treatment results.

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