Department news | June 30, 2017
The Telemental Health Service at VA Puget Sound, also known as Promoting Access to Telemental Health (PATH), recently received a My VA Access Grant for nearly $230,000. Proposal feedback included high praise, such as “This proposal was highly innovative and should provide valuable information to the field.” The project team is led by Bradford Felker, MD, […]
Department news | June 30, 2017
Mark Snowden, MD, MPH, received this year’s Gene Peterson Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement. This resident-nominated award is given to a faculty member who demonstrates commitment to resident learning in the areas of quality improvement and patient safety. Dr. Snowden’s nominations speak to his outstanding contributions to quality improvement in our department. “He has […]
Department news | May 31, 2017
The Psychiatry and Psychology Service at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), directed by Jesse Fann, MD, MPH, and staffed by faculty in our department, has received approval to expand in order to provide increased on-site mental health care for patients undergoing cancer treatment. As the SCCA continues to grow – planning for the addition of a new […]
Department news | April 30, 2017
UW Psychiatry enjoyed a strong presence at the 6th annual Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC) conference held earlier this month. New faculty member Jennifer Erickson, DO, and Integrated Care Training Program fellow Sara Haack, MD, spoke about how to incorporate telepsychiatry services into a collaborative care program, referencing the Behavioral Health Integration Program in place throughout UW Medicine. Raman […]
Department news | April 30, 2017
Karen Bearss, PhD, a faculty member based at Seattle Children’s Hospital, is opening doors to a new clinical service at the Seattle Children’s Autism Center focused on providing access to an evidence-based training program for families raising a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The program empowers parents with skills and strategies to prevent and […]
Department news | March 31, 2017
This year’s Top Doctors report, put out annually by Seattle Magazine, features a number of our faculty and courtesy faculty members. This yearly list recognizes some of the best physicians in our region. Each doctor is nominated by a colleague and then evaluated by an outside health care research firm for inclusion. Congratulations to faculty […]
Department news | March 31, 2017
Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, launched two new teleconsultation clinics in February for community mental health providers in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp). The clinics follow the Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Model developed at the University of New Mexico. Using state-of-the-art telehealth technology and clinical management tools, the CBT ECHO clinics connect expertise […]
Department news | March 31, 2017
Our addictions team had a strong presence at the 19th Annual Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine Conference held earlier this month. Psychiatry Addiction Fellows Lauren Augello, MD, Matt Iles-Shih, MD and Mark Ellestad, MD gave the Fellowship Lecture on the challenges and promise of integrating addictions treatment with primary care. Courtesy faculty member and former UW psychiatry resident/community fellow Paul Grekin, MD, […]
Department news | March 31, 2017
Starting this past November, our Psychiatric Consultation and Telepsychiatry Program (PCAT) led by Marc Avery, MD, and Denise Chang, MD, began a systematic quality improvement project to improve the depression treatment and outcomes for patients receiving care within the UW Medicine primary care network, and who are members of an identified UW Medicine Accountable Care Network contract. […]
Department news | February 28, 2017
The UW Psychiatric and Addictions Case Conference (UW PACC) series began on July 7, 2016. This weekly videoconference series, led by addiction psychiatrists Mark Duncan, MD, and Rick Ries, MD, and with new panelist clinical psychologist Kari Stephens, PhD, is designed to train the Integrated Care fellows to deliver a regional peer learning and support network for treating […]
