Department news | January 31, 2018
The Depression – Population Approach to Health (Depression – PATH) project started in November, 2016 as part of a system-wide care transformation initiative to improve depression care and outcomes for patients within the UW Medicine primary care network. Led by Denise Chang, MD, Marc Avery, MD, and Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, the program initially focused on patients […]
Department news | January 31, 2018
For over 30 years, Harborview Medical Center’s Madison Clinic has been providing care to those in the Puget Sound region who are HIV-positive. From the beginning, the Clinic’s care providers and patients recognized that many of those living with HIV also struggled with a mental health and/or substance use disorder that significantly impacted their quality […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
In August 2016, we received a one-year planning grant from the Many Minds Collaborative to work with the UW School of Social Work and the King County Behavioral Health Research Division on a Partnership in Innovation in Mental Health (PIMH). The goal of this partnership is to improve the quality of care and health outcomes among […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
Our department has tremendous expertise to contribute to the opioid public health emergency declared by President Trump in October. Addiction psychiatry is the single strongest area in our department and our addictions program is consistently ranked among the top 10 in the country. We have expertise across the entire age spectrum and in all areas […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
Over $1 million was raised at The Benefit event in November to support a new UW Medicine Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center. In addition to improved crisis intervention and telepsychiatry consultation services, the Institute will initially focus on building a First Episode Psychosis Program that takes a population health approach to comprehensive clinical […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The UW Medicine Psychiatry Consultation and Telepsychiatry (PCAT) program recently held a retreat that brought together 20 departmental faculty members to review accomplishments of the program to date and strategic plans for the coming year. PCAT, led by Marc Avery, MD, and supported by Cara Towle, RN, MSN, MA, offers three tiers of telepsychiatry: provider-to-provider consultation, integrated care consultation, […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The psychiatrists who cover the consult service at UW Medical Center have begun doing consults at Wyoming Medical Center (WMC), a 217 bed hospital and regional trauma center in Casper. WMC is also home to the University of Wyoming’s Family Medicine Residency Program. Wyoming is over 25,000 square miles larger than Washington State, yet the […]
Department news | September 30, 2017
The Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) program based at the Adult Medicine Clinic at Harborview is undergoing an expansion. Led by Joe Merrill, MD, a UW associate professor of medicine, and funded by a State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grant (Opioid STR) administered by the Washington Department of Social and Health Services, the […]
Department news | September 30, 2017
Medical providers can fulfill the new state law requiring health professionals to complete a one-time training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management with All Patients Safe: Suicide Prevention for Medical Professionals. All Patients Safe is a highly interactive, suicide prevention training developed by UW Medicine and Forefront Suicide Prevention in partnership with Seattle Children’s, CoMotion […]
Department news | September 30, 2017
The Harborview Mental Health and Addiction Services (HMHAS) at Harborview Medical Center received funding from King County Public Health, Behavioral Health and Recovery Division to develop a clinical model for integrated physical-behavioral healthcare with the goal of reducing cardio-metabolic risk. Cardio-metabolic risk factors (obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes) are more than twice as common […]
