Department news | January 31, 2023
Generous philanthropic donors created the Ventura Endowed Fellowship for Autism Research to support training and education in the field of autism and ultimately increase clinical capacity for the diagnosis and treatment of autism.
Department news | November 30, 2022
Sarah Walker, PhD, was selected for the 2022 Public Voices Fellowship at AcademyHealth, in partnership with The OpEd Project.
Department news | April 21, 2022
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD, traveled to Washington DC last month to testify in front of the US Senate Committee on Finance at a full committee hearing on “Behavioral Health Care When Americans Need It: Ensuring Parity and Care Integration.”
Department news | April 21, 2022
The Washington State Legislature finished their legislative session last month and one of the biggest wins was in children’s behavioral health.
Department news | November 25, 2020
A generous philanthropic gift has made it possible to implement a culturally sensitive pediatric Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) in the Pediatric Clinic at Harborview, providing a tremendous opportunity to adapt the Collaborative Care model to younger patients. BHIP uses the Collaborative Care model developed in our department to provide mental health services in primary […]
Blue Ridge Academic Health Group | March 1, 2020
The latest Blue Ridge Academic Health Group report explains how behavioral health care has reached a crisis and how academic health centers can play a role in leading change. The report was prepared by some of the most influential leaders in academic medicine including Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH.
Los Angeles Times | February 25, 2020
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said it could neither recommend nor oppose cognitive screening for older adults because there is insufficient scientific evidence of the practice’s benefits and harms. Soo Borson, professor emerita and developer of the Mini-Cog, a brief screening tool for cognitive impairment designed for use in primary care and other non-specialist […]
San Francisco Chronicle | January 29, 2020
Sarah Walker, PhD, is quoted in an article about counties that send young people to treatment in juvenile halls. Viewing the entire story may require a subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle.
KXLY | January 22, 2020
The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Harborview Abuse and Trauma Center propose a guide that recommends more services to victims, prosecuting attorneys and access to trauma centers.
MedPage Today | January 13, 2020
An article written by Carol Rockhill, MD, PhD, underscores how the U.S. is more similar to impoverished countries than other global leaders when it comes to providing affordable mental healthcare.
