Department news | April 30, 2019
Heidi Combs, MD, has been named the first holder of the Stern Endowed Chair for Medical Education. In this position, Dr. Combs will serve as the program director for the UW School of Medicine’s Pauline and Edgar Stern Program for Medical Education and will create the vision, develop a strategic plan and oversee a program […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
The Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy (PBHJP) is thrilled to announce its new Youth Internship Program. Habeebullah Rasheed-Pipkin, Matthew Foster and Desire Lyons are members of Community Passageways, an organization based in South King County that provides youth formal diversion from the juvenile justice system and provides support to youth in the community through restorative justice practices, […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
The Evidence-Based Practice Institute (EBPI), in collaboration with the Washington Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery/Department of Social and Health Services, has released the FY17/18 Evidence-Based Reporting Guides for children’s public mental health. The Reporting Guides use a flexible essential elements approach in directing therapists how to document the use of evidence-based practices in individual therapy […]
Department news | March 30, 2023
Harborview has implemented a Peer Bridger model of peer support since 2013, and with donor support, it is expanding the Peer Bridger program in a new way: connecting Peer Bridgers with patients from the beginning of care, right in the Psychiatric Emergency Department.
Department news | March 30, 2023
Generous philanthropic gifts from the Perigee Fund and Gerlich Family have made it possible for the UW Perinatal Mental Health & Substance Use Education, Research & Clinical Consultation Center (PERC Center) to offer treatment through the UW Perinatal Telepsychiatry Clinic, and an anonymous donor gift is enabling PERC to establish best practices for mental health screening, follow up, case management, symptom tracking and clinical care for all Medicaid-insured women receiving prenatal or postpartum care.
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.
UW Medicine newsroom | January 13, 2023
The UW Center for Mental Health, Policy and the Law, in collaboration with the UW SPIRIT Lab is working to make cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for psychosis accessible throughout Washington state.
Department news | January 31, 2023
Practicing clinicians who are also engaged in research and discovery are central to the development of new solutions, but only a small number of our medical students and psychiatry residents actively participate in research during their training. To bridge this gap, we are launching a new Clinician Scientist Training Program.
Department news | January 31, 2023
Over 75 researchers, clinicians, educators and supporters attended the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions second annual meeting held last week at South Lake Union.
Department news | January 31, 2023
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD, and Bill O’Connell, EdD, traveled to Olympia earlier this month to testify in support of Senate Bill 5189 to credential a Behavioral Health Support Specialist (BHSS) in Washington.
