Accelerate: The Campaign for UW Medicine | January 9, 2020
Todd and Laura Crooks join forces with Jim Vollendroff, MPA, Jurgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA, and Rebecca Sladek, MS, to create a new kind of mental health conference that works with community members to devise solutions and move initiatives forward.
UW Medicine Newsroom | October 3, 2019
Philanthropists Lynn and Mike Garvey establish the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions to develop effective new treatments for brain disorders. Read more coverage in The Seattle Times, KUOW, KOMO, GeekWire, and Puget Sound Business Journal.
UW Medicine Newsroom | November 21, 2019
Mental-health researchers, including Eric Bruns, PhD, examine which factors influence policymakers’ decisions to support treatments that showed success in trials.
Medscape | March 28, 2017
Lawmakers in several states are advancing proposals to force individuals who abuse opioids into treatment via involuntary commitment as a means of coping with the rapid rise in overdose rates. Andrew Saxon, MD, weighs in. (Medscape subscription required to view article. Free to subscribe.)
Right as Rain | December 15, 2017
Jesse Fann, MD, and Marc Avery, MD, explain why depression carries a big public health burden and how collaborative care can help.
TVW | January 15, 2015
Jurgen Unutzer, MD, MPH, MA, was recently asked to speak to the WA State Joint Senate Health Care & Human Services Mental Health Committee about integrated care.
UW School of Public Health | February 1, 2020
Theresa Hoeft, PhD, is co-author of a study about a new intervention that may help break the cycle of opioid use disorder among people transitioning from jail or prison back into the community.
UW Medicine Newsroom | February 12, 2020
Michael Pullman, PhD, is one of several scientists and physicians from the UW School of Medicine who is presenting at the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, this year held at the UW. He will be discussing ways to prevent the commercial sex trafficking of children and teens.
