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.
Philanthropy
Where’s the mental healthcare coverage in PPOs?
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.
The three of us
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.
$50 million gift is foundation for brain disorders research
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.
How do states decide to adopt evidence-based treatments?
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.
States consider mandatory treatment for opioid abusers
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.)
Depression is a public health crisis. Why don’t we treat it like one?
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.
Integrated Care reaches the State Senate floor
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.
New jail-based intervention increases uptake of treatment for opioid use disorder after release
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.
Hot topics in UW Medicine science at AAAS meeting
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.
