Education & Workforce Development

Margaret H. O’Donnell Prize recognizes medical students’ work in psychiatry

Department news | October 31, 2021

We are pleased to announce a new process for the selection of the annual Margaret H. O’Donnell Prize in Psychiatry. This prize is awarded to a 4th year medical student who has been highly involved in behavior health issues and/or done outstanding academic work in psychiatry. Attributes considered during selection include clinical skills, community support, […]

Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Residency Training Program

Department news | September 30, 2021

A new partnership with our School of Nursing seeks to create a Psychiatry Residency Program that would create important new clinical training and leadership opportunities for advanced practice providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants. During a one-year residency program, nurse practitioners would work in inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care settings gaining crucial […]

Partnership champions best practices for integrating mental illness and substance use disorders care

Department news | March 31, 2021

The Enhanced Illness Management and Recovery (E-IMR) Implementation Project brings together the Northwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Northwest ATTC), Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Northwest MHTTC), and the Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) at Harborview Medical Center in a co-sponsorship arrangement to enhance integrated services for mental illness and substance use. In this project, all […]

New UW Boise Psychiatry Residency

Department news | May 31, 2020

We are delighted to announce that the Idaho Track of our department’s Psychiatry Residency Program will become a separate four-year psychiatry residency program based in Boise starting in July 2021! This means that we will have two psychiatry residency programs in our department – our existing Seattle-based program and the new UW Boise Psychiatry Residency. The […]

New program aims to expand behavioral health workforce in Washington

Department news | April 30, 2020

Washington State has a tremendous shortage of skilled behavioral health care professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers and licensed counselors. With seed funding from the UW and in collaboration with the UW School of Social Work, the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the departments of Psychology and Computer Science & […]

Medical student course leadership transition

Department news | January 31, 2020

Every year, faculty in our department teach a classroom course for UW medical students titled Mind, Brain, and Behavior. Marcella Pascualy, MD, has served as the Course Chair for the past 20 years and has now decided to step down from this role. She has done a sensational job in this position, displaying unwavering dedication, creativity, high standards […]

Expansion of residency leadership

Department news | December 30, 2019

Our residency program is growing and we are making substantial investments to strengthen its administrative and faculty support. We are reviewing our curriculum and evaluation processes and anticipate significant modernization to meet the challenge of training psychiatrists for the future of psychiatry. We are also adding a new structure and additional support for our residency […]

Strong department showing at ACLP Annual Meeting

Department news | November 30, 2019

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, a subspecialty of psychiatry focused on treating behavioral conditions in patients with medical and surgical problems, is one of our department’s strengths as indicated by the large contingent of faculty and trainees who convened in San Diego earlier this month for the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) annual meeting. Jesse Fann, MD, MHP, served as Program […]