UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
News
First responders sound alarm over overdose calls, toll on their mental health
King5 News | September 23, 2026
“People retire early, they're out more on medical leave, or they choose not to get into the profession at all because they've heard negative things,” said Mandy Owens, PhD.
Feature
New institute streamlines pathways from discovery to impact
Department News | September 24, 2026
By integrating AI, experimental science, and interdisciplinary training, the new Institute for Innovations in Drug Disposition and Delivery (I2D3) will accelerate drug discovery and improve how medicines are manufactured (or formulated) and delivered, ensuring they reach the right place in the body with greater safety, effectiveness, and precision.
Events
Grand Rounds - Using state agency data to understand the opioid overdose risk environment in Connecticut
October 16 | 12 -1 PM
This talk describes the process Robert Heimer, PhD, and his colleagues have used to obtain the data collected by relevant agencies in Connecticut, their successes and failures in establishing data linkages and conducting analyses that reveal the associations of risk and protective factors with overdose-related events, and their efforts to improve access to the data.
