Resident well-being is essential for optimal resident learning, competent and compassionate clinical care, and the smooth functioning of the residency program. Our Residency Wellness Program is a vital component to our psychiatry training program that promotes a sense of collegiality and enhances our residents’ emotional health. Supported by philanthropy, our Residency Wellness Program allows us to offer:

• wellness retreats
• wellness didactics
• resident bonding within and between classes
• opportunities for reflection
• resident-driven wellness programming
• welcome events for PGY-1s

Please consider donating to the Psychiatry Resident Education and Training Fund!

Our biggest strength is our people, and this year we hope to recruit for the following positions:

• Cognitive aging (K Warner Schaie Endowed Chair in Adult Cognitive Development)
• Translational addiction research (Nicole K. Engle Endowed Professorship for Addiction Medicine)
• Chief of Psychiatry at Harborview Medical Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital
• Division Directors for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine
• Junior faculty recruitment for psychiatrists and/or psychologists with interest in neuromodulation, mental health and the law, or digital innovation and artificial intelligence (AI).

New space and facilities allow us to bring in excellent people and programs. We are pursuing:

• Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center for innovation, training, and clinical care.
• Adult Voluntary Psychiatric Unit at the Center for Behavioral Health and Learning (CBHL) including space for new moms needing psychiatric care.
• Emergency Psychiatry Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) Unit at UWMC-Northwest.
• Intensive Outpatient Psychiatry (IOP) program at UWMC-Northwest.
• Affordable housing for our residents and fellows.

We continue to invest in novel ways to treat mental health and substance use. We are exploring:

• Raising Washington will combine experts from the PERC Center and partner institutions to move mental healthcare upstream and help high-risk babies and their parents get the best start possible.
• Mental Health Policy and the Law is a partnership with UW School of Law to create a shared clinic, explore policy changes, and more.
• Technology in mental health care priorities focused on the use of AI in training scenarios, rapid access to services, skill sharing, and more.
• Mental health in school settings such as the work being done in the SMART Center.
• Geriatric Psychiatry and Cognitive Aging Program
• Therapeutic Communities to support healthy community-based living options for patients living with serious mental illness discharged from long-term psychiatric hospitalization.
• Intensive Outpatient IOP and Partial Hospital Programs
• Addiction and substance use disorders (research, education, policy and clinical care)
• Novel therapeutics such as NTAP’s clinical trials of psychedelic medications and psychotherapy
• Brain stimulation (ECT, TMS, VNS) treatment and research to advance care in treatment-resistant depression and other serious brain health problems.

New facilities and programs present new opportunities to develop our workforce. We hope to build:

• A Psychiatry Resident Wellness Program to support the next generation of mental health professionals
• A robust Clinician Scientist Training Program to support students, trainees, and early career faculty interested in research careers.
• Chopp Scholars Program in Behavioral Health to support trainees and early career professionals who have an interest in mental health policy.