Department news | September 30, 2018
Jessica Jenness, PhD, Acting Assistant Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, received the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant to supplement a current NIH K23-funded study looking at the neural and behavioral correlates to Behavioral Activation treatment response in depressed teens with maltreatment histories. The Young Investigator Grant will allow Dr. Jenness to collect […]
Department news | June 30, 2018
Researchers with the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team (WERT) led by Eric Bruns, PhD, have published a new article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research presenting results from the first-ever randomized study of the impact of an electronic health record (EHR) on provider, service, and client outcomes in children’s mental health. EHRs are widely proposed as a mechanism for improving health […]
Department news | June 30, 2018
Sleep Medicine Reviews, edited by Michael V. Vitiello, PhD, received a CiteScore of 7.98, putting the journal in the top four and above in all of its discipline categories (Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine – 99th percentile; Neurology – 98th percentile; Neurology (clinical) – 98th percentile; and Physiology (medical) – 96th percentile). CiteScore is a simple way of […]
Department news | June 30, 2018
As is true throughout Southeast Asia, persons with mental illness in Vietnam suffer from stigmatization and under-resourced care. But things are changing. Vietnam is experiencing rapid economic expansion, and concurrently, attitudes about caring for individuals with mental illness are shifting. In 2013, Richard Veith, MD, joined the Medical Education Exchange Teams (MEET) to establish a UW academic collaboration […]
Department news | May 31, 2018
The annual Celebration of Research at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System took place this month during the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Research Week. Highlights included the presentation of the 2018 Larry Searle Lifetime Achievement Award to Murray Raskind, MD, and the 2018 Paul B. Magnuson Award Recipient to Elaine Peskind, MD. Dr. Raskind, Director of […]
Department news | May 31, 2018
We received word this month that a NIMH-funded P50 grant was awarded for an Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Center! The purpose of the UW ALACRITY Center (UWAC) is to address critical problems in the implementation of evidence-based psychosocial interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health problems, particularly in underserved communities and […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
Biomedical tools and technologies are evolving rapidly, enabling scientists to both generate and analyze more research data than ever before. But what happens when datasets become too large to share or when the data from various sources are so dissimilar that they cannot be combined easily with another related but different dataset? These types of […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
Patricia Areán, PhD, Jessica Jenness, PhD, and the Creativ Lab Team are partnering with Lucille Umbarger Elementary School in Burlington, WA and Akili Interactive on a pilot study that examines the impact of incorporating a therapeutic video game, EVO, into the school day. Susan Novak, 6th grade teacher, and Nick Hayes, principal, reached out to Dr. Areán […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
In a unique collaboration between federal agencies, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is contracting with the UW AIMS Center to provide training and technical assistance to 11 clinics receiving Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funding to implement collaborative care in nurse-led primary care settings. The 11 HRSA Awardee clinics are all safety-net […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
Although official notice of grant award is in its final phases, all indications are that we will soon have an NIMH-funded P50 grant for an Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Center in our department. ALACRITY Centers support the rapid development, testing, and refinement of novel and integrative approaches […]
