Department News | September 30, 2024
Our new six-story Center for Behavioral Health and Learning (CBHL) is now open and seeing patients. Tour the beautiful new facility with this video from the SRG + CannonDesign team.
Philanthropy
Congratulations to our Staff Scholarship Award recipients!
Department News | September 30, 2024
Congrats to the recipients of our latest round of Staff Scholarship Awards! Funded by department and philanthropic funds, these awards support professional development of classified and professional staff who work in our department.
Debut event: Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction
Department News | September 30, 2024
Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction was a first ever, full-day event to showcase the department’s efforts to tackle our region’s challenges with addiction and substance use disorders.
A new behavioral health center from UW Medicine delivers much needed care and training
UW Magazine | September 12, 2024
With a $244 million investment from the state, CBHL adds 150 psychiatric hospital beds and is part of an ambitious new approach to caring for individuals living with mental illness.
Announcing our newest endowed professors – Randall Espinoza and Rebecca Hendrickson
Department News | September 3, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH, has been named the inaugural holder of the Garvey Family Endowed Professorship for Technology and Brain Health and is serving as the Medical Director of the Garvey Institute Center for Neuromodulation located in CBHL. We are also pleased to announce that Rebecca Hendrickson, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural holder of the Denise L. Tabbutt Endowed Professorship for Trauma and Brain Health. Dr. Hendrickson cares for patients in the VA Puget Sound's outpatient posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clinic.
2024 Jeremy Clark Fellowship recipients
Department news | June 27, 2024
To honor the memory and contributions of our colleague and friend, Jeremy Clark, PhD, each summer we award research fellowships to UW undergraduate students to work on a ten-week research project in the lab of a Division of Psychiatric Neurosciences faculty member. Congratulations to our three new fellows!
Welcome to our advanced nurse practitioner fellows
Department news | June 27, 2024
This summer, we’re welcoming the second cohort of the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Provider Fellowship Program. The one-year training program provides the new Fellows an opportunity to further develop their clinical expertise in mental health care and serve as psychiatric consultants through the Collaborative Care Model.
Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship welcomes first fellows
Department news | June 27, 2024
We’re excited to welcome the first fellows into our new Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Program in July. The program's goal is to improve clinical care for our patients, improve the educational experience for trainees, and create new opportunities to advance knowledge in clinical neurosciences.
Ventura Fund supports autism training and education
Department news | June 27, 2024
Congratulations to the six trainees who recently received funding from the Ventura Endowed Fellowship for Autism Research to support their training and education.
Washington Neuroscience Initiatives hopes to accelerate brain health
Department news | June 27, 2024
Brain health disorders have become the largest causes of health-related disability around the world yet we have only a limited understanding of the basic mechanisms of brain function that underlie these disorders. To accelerate progress in the understanding of how brains work and apply this knowledge to develop therapeutic interventions, a UW-led team including chair Jürgen Unützer, MD, is working to grow and support a diverse pipeline of scientists and clinicians in the field of neuroscience.
