Condition: Adolescent/young adult

William French

Personal Statement

I am a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Pediatric Clinic at Harborview, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine.

In my clinical work, I strive to create active partnerships with my patients and their families to achieve the best possible outcomes regardless of their needs and circumstances.  I am lucky to  have great behavioral health and primary care partners across the different clinics I work in, who are invaluable collaborators in caring for our patients and families.

I am involved in the child and adolescent training program and supervises trainees at several outpatient clinics. My clinical and research interests include integrating mental healthcare into primary care settings, ADHD, disruptive behaviors, aggression, trauma-related disorders, and improving clinical supervision of child and adolescent psychiatry trainees.

Jennifer Cadigan

Personal Statement

Dr. Cadigan is an Assistant Professor and licensed psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 2016 and then completed clinical psychology internship and fellowship at the University of Washington Medical Center. Her program of research focuses on adolescent and young adult health and wellbeing, with an emphasis on the etiology, prevention, and intervention of substance misuse and co-occurring mental health concerns. This work aims to develop, test, and disseminate innovative prevention and intervention programs to reduce substance misuse and improve mental health among adolescents and young adults. This work has included developing and testing programs for young adults who use substances to cope with negative affect and loneliness. Her work has also examined etiological factors related to co-occurring mental health and substance use, including the effects of loneliness, depression, coping motives, social support, solitary substance use, and factors associated with improving access to mental health care. Clinically, she works with adolescents presenting with depression and suicidality at Seattle Children’s Hospital in the Behavioral Health Crisis Care Clinic and in the Mood and Anxiety Program.  
  • Recent Grants:
    • Development of a behavioral economic intervention with personalized resource allocation feedback to reduce young adult alcohol misuse  (PI: Cadigan, NIH/NIAAA1R34AA029478)
    • Development of an interactive, we-based drinking to cope intervention and tools to assess coping skill utilization (PI: Cadigan, NIH/NIAAA R34AA028074)

Kathleen Lehman

Personal Statement

Dr. Kathleen Lehman works at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) in the Child Development Clinic, Down Syndrome Specialty Clinic, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Clinic, and the Infant Development Follow-Up Clinic as a licensed psychologist conducting neurodevelopmental evaluations and supervising the psychology residents and postdoctoral fellows completing evaluations of children with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders.​ She is the Associate Director of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) located that the CHDD.

Christine Lee

Personal Statement

The transition to adulthood is the developmental period when alcohol use, marijuana use, and their associated consequences reach their lifetime peak. My scholarly interests focus on the etiology and prevention of substance use behaviors and consequences during adolescence and young/early adulthood. I have developed a highly successful portfolio of work bridging developmental, social, and motivational theory with applied prevention and intervention techniques to strategically address high-risk behaviors during the transition to adulthood. My research addresses important questions regarding how recent marijuana legislation in Washington State impacts young adult marijuana use and consequences; what motivates young adults to engage in alcohol and marijuana use; how alcohol expectancies, alcohol use and consequences are linked in a natural feed-forward process that maintains high-risk behaviors; how developmental transitions and event timing influence use; and what are efficacious prevention and intervention strategies and for whom and under what conditions are these most effective.

Douglas Russell

Dr. Russell’s professional interests include ADHD, integrated/collaborative care, prevention and complementary/integrative approaches to child and adolescent mental health. He takes a holistic approach to psychiatric well-being that extends beyond medications and psychotherapy to include other evidence-based practices shown to improve brain health including regular exercise, time in nature, supportive social interactions, mind-body activities, good nutrition and sleep hygiene.

Ravi Ramasamy

I am board certified in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington.  I am an attending physician on the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where I provide acute inpatient treatment to patients with a broad range of diagnoses and presenting concerns.

I aim to provide high-quality, antiracist, trauma-informed evidence-based care as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team, while providing clinical supervision and education to CAP fellows, General Psychiatry Residents, and Medical Students.  I am involved in didactic education for the CAP fellows as the course director for Forensics, Ethics, and Professionalism (FEP), and for the medical students as the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry clerkship director for third year medical students.  In addition, I am the EDI training director for the CAP fellowship program.

Eileen Twohy

I am a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and UW Medicine, where my work primarily consists of clinical care and teaching. My two areas of focus are the provision of effective, trauma-informed treatment for youth and families in suicidal crises and the promotion of equitable access to behavioral healthcare.