Jagoda Pasic, MD, PhD, will be stepping out of her role as medical director for the Harborview Psychiatry Emergency Service (PES). Jagoda has been the medical director of the PES since 2003 and over the past 13 years has guided the program through important changes including establishing 24/7 attending psychiatry presence, inclusion of Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners to the interdisciplinary team of physicians, social workers, nurses and mental health specialists, and establishing procedures for care of increasing numbers of patients boarding in the PES due to shortages of community inpatient psychiatry beds. She developed an extensive emergency psychiatry curriculum for psychiatry residents and has become a national leader in emergency room psychiatry with more than a dozen papers and book chapters in this area and participation on several national committees focused on emergency psychiatry.

Dr. Pasic will be serving in the medical director role until an interim or permanent PES medical director is selected. She will continue to work in the department and is exploring opportunities to serve as a psychiatric consultant in our integrated care programs, and to work in the Harborview Mental Health center and will continue her work with mentorship and faculty development in clinician educator and clinical pathways at Harborview. We gratefully thank her for her many years of dedicated service in one of our most challenging service areas.