Department news | March 31, 2016
Our Department has a longstanding history of practice and innovation in telepsychiatric care. Last year alone, we provided more than 15,000 telehealth consultations to primary care providers and other clinicians throughout Washington and the five-state WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) region. Building on our success, we’ve launched a new Psychiatry Consultation and Telepsychiatry […]
Department news | March 31, 2016
A number of our faculty were honored in Seattle Magazine's Top Doctors yearly list recognizing the most outstanding physicians in the region.
Department news | January 31, 2016
Cecilia Breinbauer, MD, MPH and Amritha Bhat, MD have been awarded seed money for a Global Parent Child Mental Health Initiative. This initiative is a collaboration between UW Faculty and colleagues from China, Peru, Kenya, and Chile to train care providers, educators, and students on how to work with and talk about mental health issues. In order to […]
Department news | December 31, 2015
Our new Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line led by Deb Cowley allows any health care provider in Washington State to receive consultation, recommendations, and referrals to community resources from a UW psychiatrist with expertise in perinatal mental health. Modeled after the successful child psychiatry telehealth PAL program, faculty members consult on any mental health-related questions for […]
Department news | June 30, 2015
UW Medicine as part of the Access to Excellence quality improvement process encourages proper hand hygiene before and after direct patient care contacts. At Harborview Medical Center, there are clear trends showing that when overall rates of hand hygiene in the hospital improve, rates of hospital acquired methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections experienced by […]
Department news | June 30, 2015
The Division of Integrated Care and Public Health held a retreat for UW-partner Collaborative Care Consultants on May 1st. This retreat drew over 20 psychiatrists from both academic and community settings who currently provide consultation in our Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP), Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP), or Social Innovation Fund: Health Futures programs. The […]
Department news | June 30, 2015
Deborah Cowley, MD, and Amritha Bhat, MD, are offering new psychiatric consultation services for pregnant and postpartum women at the UW Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. Services include: Informed consent discussions regarding psychotropic medications during pregnancy and lactation. Treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and postpartum. Anticipatory guidance regarding attachment and bonding […]
Yakima Herald | June 6, 2015
Washington state has about 600 practicing psychiatrists, but only about 50 live outside of the Seattle and Spokane areas. But a novel approach started about eight years ago at the UW, where Seattle-based psychiatrists act as expert consultants to primary care providers all over the state could make a difference said Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA.
Department news | September 30, 2015
Our Department has been conducting an inventory of behavioral health outpatient services across UW medicine in conjunction with the UW Performance Improvement/LEAN team, led by Arkan Kayihan. Referred to as the “consolidation and expansion” project, driving factors include a past need to 1) consider consolidation of our two separate psychiatry resident clinic programs (HMC and […]
Department news | February 28, 2023
Myra Parker, JD, MPH, PhD, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the National Network of Public Health Institutes, has produced an Indigenous Evaluation Toolkit.
