Department news | February 29, 2016
Nina de Lacy, MD, MBA, a fellow in our UW Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is one of three investigators selected this year to participate in the Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program. The KL2 program is a rigorous, three-year, interdisciplinary research program that involves intensive mentoring experience in […]
Department news | September 30, 2015
The University of Washington was recently awarded $8 million in state funds over the next two biennia for a new integrated evidence-based psychiatry training program to improve access to mental health care in Washington State. As part of this program, our department will offer up to five positions per year for Integrated Care Fellows. These […]
Department news | September 30, 2015
The director of the Psychiatry Residency’s Idaho Advanced Clinician Track for 8 years, Jeralyn Jones, MD, will step down as of September 30. Under her leadership, this regional track has expanded in size and gained in national stature. She has successfully garnered state funding for the program, recruited excellent residents, and been an outstanding and […]
Department news | September 30, 2015
Tom Soeprono, MD, joins our Education team as the UWMC faculty site coordinator for the medical student clerkship and as our UWMC Associate Residency Director. Dr. Soeprono is a graduate of our Psychiatry Residency and Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship Program. He is particularly interested in developing innovative, point-of-care teaching methods for educating students and residents on […]
Department news | September 30, 2015
The Department’s research training efforts recently received a major boost from an R25 grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The five-year grant will support the UW Psychiatry Resident Research Program (PRRP) and will help double the number of residents in the research training track from two per year to four per year. […]
UW Medicine: your impact in action | March 17, 2023
A donor-supported program helps psychiatry residents bring telehealth care to the Lummi Nation. Jessica Whitfield, MD, MPH, developed a six-month integrated care rotation for two psychiatric residents per year who provide telehealth care to clinic patients.
The UW Daily | March 2, 2023
Starting in 2023, four advanced registered nurse practitioner (ARNP) fellows will be trained in psychiatry at the UW Medical Center. The training will include inpatient, outpatient, telehealth consultation, integrated psychiatric care, and rotations at primary care clinics.
Washington State Governor's Office | December 9, 2022
Gov. Jay Inslee visited the University of Washington today to tour the first-of-its-kind behavioral health teaching hospital currently under construction. Inslee proposed the hospital in 2018 as part of a larger effort to transform and expand the state’s behavioral health system.
Department news | January 31, 2023
Practicing clinicians who are also engaged in research and discovery are central to the development of new solutions, but only a small number of our medical students and psychiatry residents actively participate in research during their training. To bridge this gap, we are launching a new Clinician Scientist Training Program.
Department news | January 31, 2023
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD, and Bill O’Connell, EdD, traveled to Olympia earlier this month to testify in support of Senate Bill 5189 to credential a Behavioral Health Support Specialist (BHSS) in Washington.
