UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

News

Five common myths about being admitted to a psychiatric hospital

Right as Rain | November 14, 2024

To help demystify the experience, Jay Augsburger, MD explains what psychiatric care in a hospital is actually like. 

Feature

UWMC Roosevelt opens new clinical rooms, includes space for research trials

Department News | October 31, 2024

After several years of advocacy, our outpatient psychiatry clinic at UWMC Roosevelt (OPC) has opened more space for patient care and clinical research! The OPC’s footprint now includes eleven new consult rooms, two RN workstations, eight provider workstations, a large AV-equipped conference room and new space for faculty and staff to conduct clinical research trials.

Events

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds - Advancing Global Mental Health: Stigma, Community Engagement, and Collaborative Care Models in Uganda

December 6, 2024, 12-1 PM

Yang Jae Lee, MD, will share insights from nearly a decade of work working with communities in rural Uganda to advance physical and mental health and his work founding and leading the 501(c)(3) organization Empower Through Health (ETH).