Department news | September 30, 2015
The Trauma Survivors Outcomes and Support (TSOS) study team assesses the impact of traumatic life events on injured patients at the Harborview Level I Trauma Center, as well as across emergency departments and trauma centers nationally. Currently funded by NIH and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the team conducts comparative effectiveness trials investigating […]
Department news | September 30, 2015
Our Department received $12 million from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to test a telepsychiatry extension of the Collaborative Care model for patients with PTSD or bipolar disorder in rural primary care clinics. This is the largest award to our department in a long time and it will become the largest treatment trial […]
UW Population Health | March 30, 2023
Eric Bruns, PhD, and colleagues received pilot grant funding from the UW Population Health Initiative for a project that will use school community collaboratives to address student disciplinary outcomes linked to school policing.
UW Medicine newsroom | April 3, 2023
A smartphone app called THRIVE showed promise in preventing post-traumatic stress when tested among people who had recently experienced sexual assault. Lead author Emily Dworkin, PhD, is quoted.
Memory & Brain Wellness Center | March 9, 2023
Jeff Iliff, PhD, is using data from the Seattle Longitudinal Study (SLS) created by Sherry Willis, PhD, and the late Warner Schaie, PhD, to investigate the link between sleep and dementia risk.
Department news | February 28, 2023
Marco Pravetoni, PhD, recently traveled to DC to represent the potential we have to make a difference in one of the most compelling human crises our country is facing -- opioid use disorder and related overdoses.
Department news | February 28, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that our department has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a new practice-based Suicide Care Research Center directed by Katherine Ann (Kate) Comtois, PhD, MPH.
University of Washington Magazine | February 25, 2023
Marco Pravetoni, PhD, has invested more than a decade of his career to pursuing the development and translation of vaccines and other antibody-based treatment strategies that have eluded scientists for more than half a century.
UW Medicine newsroom | February 24, 2023
William Banks, MD, Shelly Erickson, PhD, and a team of researchers with the UW School of Medicine, the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, and Oregon Health & Science University have shed light on the likely culprit of symptoms like foggy brain and vanishing memory: inflammation.
Psychiatric News | February 23, 2023
Prazosin—a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure—may also reduce drinking by adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to a clinical trial led by Murray Raskind, MD.
