Mad in America | November 6, 2025
A new JAMA Psychiatry Viewpoint by Sarah Kopelovich, PhD and Adam Kuczynski, PhD argues that hospitals should make clinical psychologists standard on psychiatric wards.
Clinical Care & Consultation
Donor support for PES Peers at Harborview is extended
Department News | November 26, 2025
With renewed support from the Hoveida Family Foundation, the PES Peers program is being extended, and additional efforts will be made to share lessons from the pilot project with community partners.
Streamlining outpatient behavioral health referrals
Department News | November 26, 2025
Led by Mollie Forrester, MSW, LICSW, and Ryan Kimmel, MD, we have started work on a new access project to create a unified, patient-centered behavioral health referral system across UW Medicine.
CMHIS celebrates first year of mental health implementation support
Department News | November 26, 2025
As CMHIS enters its second year, the Pacific West Hub team met to reflect on lessons learned and set priorities for the year ahead.
Paul Borghesani named Chief of Service for Psychiatry at Harborview
Department News | November 26, 2025
It is with great pleasure we announce that after a committee search, Paul Borghesani, MD, PhD has been approved by the Medical Executive Board and Board of Trustees as the Chief of Service for Psychiatry at Harborview Medical Center.
ADHD diagnoses are growing. What’s going on?
Nature | November 26, 2025
Info online connects with some people who have had symptoms but never understood what they were, says Margaret Sibley, PhD. That leads them to seek help, pushing diagnoses up.
Questioning the boundary between pain and suffering
Psychology Today | November 19, 2025
Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD writes that medicine sees pain as the cause of suffering, but suffering causes pain too. We need to focus attention on the unified problem of pain and suffering.
Disabling cannabis gets formal clinical identity
UW Medicine Newsroom | November 18, 2025
"A new code for cannabis hyperemesis syndrome will supply important hard evidence on cannabis-adverse events, which physicians tell us is a growing problem,” says Beatriz Carlini, PhD, MPH.
Syndrome linked to chronic cannabis use gets formal ID by World Health Organization
KOMO News | November 19, 2025
Now that we have a name, we can better educate society that, yes, cannabis helps control nausea in some people, but for others it's the exact opposite, explains Beatriz Carlini, PhD, MPH.
Seattle Children’s recognized as top 10 children’s hospital in U.S.
Department News | October 30, 2025
U.S. News & World Report has recognized Seattle Children’s as one of the top 10 children’s hospitals in the U.S., including #1 in Washington state! Seattle Children’s is also rated in the top 50 in Pediatric & Adolescent Behavioral Health.
