Department news | March 31, 2015
Roger Vilardaga, Acting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was part of a team of six researchers who received the 2015 UW Innovation Award. The team is building tools for use on a mobile device that let patients easily enter data about their habits and behaviors related to a particular health problem.
Department news | January 31, 2015
Jeremy Luk, a Child Track resident in the Psychology Internship Program, has been selected as this year's recipient of the internship's Joseph Becker Research Award. The purpose of this award is to stimulate quality research by rewarding a psychology resident for independence, creativity and intellectual depth in a research effort. The award will help to fund his research project to test emotion regulation as a moderator of the associations among stress, negative mood, and drinking in college students using daily-level data.
Department News | November 30, 2014
Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA has accepted an invitation to serve a three-year term on the National Advisory Council for the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), a branch of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA). The primary responsibility of the CMHS National Advisory Council is to advise, consult with, and make recommendations concerning programmatic and policy matters for the integration of behavioral health into the current structure of primary care.
Department News | November 30, 2014
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) presented Paul Phillips, PhD with the prestigious Jacob P. Waletzky Award. Established in 2003 and supported by the Waletzky family, the $25,000 award is given to a scientist who has conducted research or plans to conduct research in the area of substance abuse and the brain and nervous system. The prize was presented at Neuroscience 2014, SfN’s annual meeting and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.
Department News | November 30, 2014
The APM Research Award honors an individual currently studying psychopathology in the medically ill and is intended to recognize exceptional research and clinical work in the field. Jesse Fann, MD, MPH, an expert in treating psychological and behavioral problems following traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, accepted the award at the Academy’s fall scientific meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in November. His Research Award Lecture described the evolution of research into the epidemiology, assessment, patient preferences, treatment, and health service delivery of persons with depression following TBI Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and made the case for future research directions and greater involvement of Psychosomatic Medicine in TBI and SCI.
Department News | November 30, 2014
Each year, our department gives an award to an outstanding clinician teacher faculty member at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level, based on excellence in teaching and supervision, scholarship, educational leadership, local and national recognition as an educator, and excellence as a clinical role model. Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD is the 2014 recipient of this award which will be presented at Graduation in June, 2015.
Department News | November 20, 2014
UW Medicine’s Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) received a Certificate of Special Achievement in recognition of its innovation and quality from the American Psychiatric Association’s Psychiatric Services Achievement Awards. BHIP is in place at all nine of UW Medicine’s Neighborhood Clinics as well as at Harborview Medical Center and UWMC. The program provides mental health care for chronic conditions like depression and anxiety at the clinics by using Collaborative Care, an integrated care model developed at the University of Washington.
Department News | November 20, 2014
Joan Romano, PhD, has received the 2014 Award for Excellence in Psychology Training from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, the national organization for postdoctoral and internship training, for her service as the Training Director of the Psychology Internship Program in the department.
