John Fortney, PhD
Personal Statement
I am a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and the Director of the Division of Population Health. I am also a Core Investigator at the HSR&D Center for Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, and the Director of the VA Virtual Care QUERI Program. For the last 35 years, my research has focused on access to care. I have published a framework for conceptualizing access to care in the digital age that incorporates virtual care technologies. I have conducted clinical trials to test the effectiveness of virtual care technologies to facilitate the delivery of evidence-based mental health services in rural primary care clinics. I have also conducted implementation trials to test the effectiveness of strategies to promote the uptake of virtual care technologies by primary care patients and providers. My research has been supported by NIMH, NIAAA, PCORI, and VA HSR/QUERI.Education
Mental Health Services Research, VA HSR&D Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research , 1993-1995
PhD, Geography, University of Iowa, 1992
BS, Geography, Middlebury College, 1984
Department Affiliations
Scholarly Expertise
- Access to health care
- Bipolar Disorder
- Collaborative Care / Integrated Care
- Depression
- Health disparities
- Health services and health policy
- Implementation science
- Low resource settings
- Measurement-based care
- Patient-centered outcomes
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pragmatic clinical trials
- Primary care
- Randomized controlled trial
- Rural mental health
- Telemedicine
- Telepsychiatry/psychology
- Telepsychiatry/telepsychology
- Veterans
- Sequenced Treatment Effectiveness for Posttraumatic Stress (STEPS)
- Monitoring mood symptoms in young adults at-risk for bipolar disorder
- Bipolar disorder measures in clinical care
- NORTH: Developing a mobile health intervention to support treatment seeking in early psychosis
- Collaborating to Heal Addiction and Mental Health in Primary Care (CHAMP)
- Study to Promote Innovation in Rural Integrated Telepsychiatry (SPIRIT)
Recent Publications
Leveraging COVID-19 to modernise depression care for VA primary care populations: protocol for a sequential explanatory mixed method evaluation.
(2025 Dec 15)
BMJ Open 15(12): e094624
Leung LB, Brayton CE, Shepardson RL, Gray CP, Lee ML, Funderburk JS, Fortney JC
(2025 Dec 15)
BMJ Open 15(12): e094624
Leung LB, Brayton CE, Shepardson RL, Gray CP, Lee ML, Funderburk JS, Fortney JC
Implementing a suicide risk management protocol as part of a multisite clinical trial: Findings and lessons learned.
(2025 Dec 8)
Clin Trials
Chase E, Moreira N, Blanchard BE, Rouvere J, Ferro L, Bechtel JM, Moore DL, Vakoch D, Law KC, Unützer J, Fortney JC
(2025 Dec 8)
Clin Trials
Chase E, Moreira N, Blanchard BE, Rouvere J, Ferro L, Bechtel JM, Moore DL, Vakoch D, Law KC, Unützer J, Fortney JC
Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness of Primary Care Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
(2025 Dec 1)
JAMA Psychiatry 82(12): 1203-1215
Fortney JC, Kaysen DL, Engel CC, Cerimele JM, Nolan JP Jr, Chase E, Blanchard BE, Hauge S, Bechtel J, Taylor A, Acierno R, Nagel N, Sripada RK, Painter JT, DeBeer BB, Zimberoff A, Bluett EJ, Teo AR, Morland LA, Grubbs K, Sloan DM, Marx BP, Heagerty PJ
(2025 Dec 1)
JAMA Psychiatry 82(12): 1203-1215
Fortney JC, Kaysen DL, Engel CC, Cerimele JM, Nolan JP Jr, Chase E, Blanchard BE, Hauge S, Bechtel J, Taylor A, Acierno R, Nagel N, Sripada RK, Painter JT, DeBeer BB, Zimberoff A, Bluett EJ, Teo AR, Morland LA, Grubbs K, Sloan DM, Marx BP, Heagerty PJ
Perceived Access, Perceived Need for Treatment, and the Decision to Seek Care for COPD Exacerbations.
(2025 Sep 16)
J Gen Intern Med
Fan VS, Hebert PL, Locke ER, Simpson TL, Swenson ER, Edelman JD, Battaglia C, Trivedi RB, Fortney JC
(2025 Sep 16)
J Gen Intern Med
Fan VS, Hebert PL, Locke ER, Simpson TL, Swenson ER, Edelman JD, Battaglia C, Trivedi RB, Fortney JC
Patient perspectives on the effectiveness of written exposure therapy and medication for posttraumatic stress disorder delivered in primary care.
(2025 Dec)
J Trauma Stress 38(6): 1021-1031
Frost MC, Joseph M, Bechtel JM, Hauge S, Engel CC, Kaysen D, Cerimele JM, Nolan JP, Sloan DM, Marx BP, Fortney JC
(2025 Dec)
J Trauma Stress 38(6): 1021-1031
Frost MC, Joseph M, Bechtel JM, Hauge S, Engel CC, Kaysen D, Cerimele JM, Nolan JP, Sloan DM, Marx BP, Fortney JC
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