Department news | February 29, 2016
Kudos to Dennis Wendt on receiving the Distinguished Dissertation Award in Qualitative Inquiry from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association. Dennis is a clinical psychologist and postdoctoral fellow in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. His postdoctoral work is with the UW Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute and his mentor is ADAI Director Dennis Donovan.
Department news | January 31, 2016
Assistant Professor Aaron Lyon has recently been awarded the DIS SIG Early Career Award that is presented to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the science of dissemination and implementation through research, practice, and leadership. Congratulations Aaron!
Department news | January 31, 2016
Each year, the Outstanding Junior Clinician Teacher Faculty Award honors an outstanding clinician teacher faculty member in our department who is at the instructor or assistant professor level. The award recognizes outstanding teaching, curriculum development, educational research and scholarship, and/or educational administration.
The first four recipients of this award were Suzanne Murray (2011), Heidi Combs (2012), Ray Hsiao (2013), and Anna Ratzliff (2014). We are pleased to announce that the 2015 recipients of this award were Will French and Ian Kodish! The award will be presented at Graduation in June.
Department news | December 31, 2015
The UW School of Medicine’s addictions programs have done it again. For the fourth year in a row, US News and World Report ranked UW Medicine as a top 10 medical school for drug and alcohol abuse programs, coming in at #10. Four west coast schools made the top ten list with Harvard University ranking first. The Drug and Alcohol Abuse training program was one of eight programs at UW medicine to receive a top 10 ranking. The other UW Medicine programs are Family Medicine (#1), Rural Medicine (#1), AIDS (#4), Geriatrics (#8), Pediatrics (#8), Internal Medicine (#8) and Women’s Health (hidden ranking).
Richard Ries, Director of the Addictions Division and the Addictions Services at Harborview, is proud of the fact that we are the only psychiatry department in the country that offers an Addictions Track as an entry option for residents. Addiction graduates function as clinical and research faculty at various departmental sites and occupy key positions in regional hospitals and treatment centers. The national ranking is just one indicator of the strength of our Addictions Division. An innovative leader in such areas as wrap-around care and opioid treatment, the Addictions Division has a large number of faculty members who engage in research, patient care, and education including Dennis Donovan’s group at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, Mary Larimer’s team at the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, Therese Grant’s work at the Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit, Andy Saxon’s research on opioid addiction treatment at the Center of Excellence in Substance Abuse Treatment and Education, Ray Hsiao’s efforts at The Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Murray Raskind and colleague at the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers , John Neumaier’s group in Psychiatric Neurosciences and Mark Sullivan’s work to study and intervene in the prescription opioid epidemic.
Department news | November 30, 2015
The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) selected Amritha Bhat, MD, as the recipient of a 2015 William Webb Fellowship, a nationally competitive program. This fellowship fosters the career development and leadership potential of outstanding trainees with an interest in consultation liaison psychiatry. As a Webb Fellow, Dr. Bhat will serve on pivotal task forces and working groups as part of the APM leadership team. Congratulations, Amritha!
Department news | November 30, 2015
Resident Vivek Datta, MD, MPH, has recently been awarded the Rappeport Fellowship presented to outstanding residents with a particular interest in the relationship between psychiatry and the law. The fellowship seeks to award those who will make a significant contribution to this field. Congratulations Vivek!
Department news | November 30, 2015
This year's recipient of the Joseph Becker Research Award is Andrea Niles, MA, an Adult Track resident in the Psychology Internship Program. The award stimulates quality research by rewarding a psychology resident for independence, creativity and intellectual depth in a research effort. Andrea’s research examines how PTSD confers greater risk for poor physical health among sexual minority women.
WSMA Press Release | September 28, 2015
Assistant Professor Ray Hsiao, MD, was elected president of the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) at the association's annual meeting in September.
Department news | June 30, 2015
Seon Kum, Psychiatry PGY-3 Resident, has won a one-year funded American Psychiatric Association/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship to pursue projects and national leadership activities focused on diversity in mental health care and addressing health disparities. Seon's plans for his fellowship year include establishing a Men of Color group for patients at the Seattle VA, helping to initiate and mentor medical students in the Department's Diversity Subinternship Program, and exploring local mental health care delivery and needs for underserved groups, as well as national best practices.
Department news | June 30, 2015
K. Warner Schaie, PhD recently received the 2016 International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) Lifetime Achievement Award for his extensive research in and contributions to the field of Geropsychology. He received both his MS and PhD from the University of Washington and continues to be an affiliate professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Dr. Schaie is best known for his role as founding Director of the Seattle Longitudinal Study (SLS). SLS is considered by many to be one of the most extensive psychological research studies of how adults cognitively develop and change through adulthood. Started in 1956, this study tests and adds participates every seven years and to date, has had over 6,000 adults, ages 20 – 100+, participate.
In addition to his significant contributions to science, Dr. Schaie is very proud of the mentoring he has done over the years. “From time to time, we have a social hour where ⅓ to ½ [of my mentees] show up,” says Dr. Schaie. He has mentored many people over the years and looks forward to finding out what they’ve done and how far they have come.
Dr. Schaie’s research over the past 50+ years has not only shown a relationship between age and cognitive ability, but also has influenced policy. Results from the SLS helped change the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 in many fields. Thanks to this research, many people are able to continue working into their 60s and 70s.
Dr. Schaie will accept the award at the 2016 ISIR Annual meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia in mid-July.
