Department news | May 31, 2016
Congratulations to Kirsten Williams on being newly appointed as the Director of our Psychiatry Residency Program’s Idaho Track! Dr. Williams has been a resident, Chief Resident, faculty member, and Associate Director in the Idaho Track, and has served as Interim Director of the track since October 1, 2015. She has an in-depth knowledge of the program as […]
Department news | April 30, 2016
Congratulations to Will Bryson and Brenna Renn, our new Geriatric Mental Health Services Research Fellows! The NIMH-funded T-32 research training program, co-directed by Stephen Thielke and Pat Aréan, focuses on mental health research in geriatrics and aging in diverse community and health care settings.
Department news | April 30, 2016
The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Western State Hospital (WSH) will be collaborating on a plan to create a high quality forensic teaching unit. Funded by the Washington State legislature, this project will include an analysis of risks, barriers, and benefits to implementation of a forensic teaching program as well as an […]
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.
