Department News | April 30, 2025
We are soliciting interest from early career and established research faculty to join our soon to be established Department Research Council. The goal of the council will be to provide a dedicated forum to address challenges and opportunities related to the research mission of the department.
NBC News | April 13, 2025
According to Tom Grabowski, MD many newer Alzheimer's drugs are at some point funded by NIH in the developmental stages. So if you take away NIH funding, this whole pipeline to therapy will go away.
UW Medicine Newsroom | April 16, 2025
Recommended reforms focus on providing basic services during incarceration and continuing community care after release. Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH and Sarah Walker, PhD, MS are authors on the study.
NPR | March 24, 2025
Margaret Sibley, PhD welcomes novel ideas coming from places like TikTok. She believes that researchers should listen with an open mind - and then rigorously study what holds up.
New York Times | March 19, 2025
The information on TikTok "doesn't always tell you the full story, and it can also lead the loudest voices to be overrepresented," says Margaret Sibley, PhD.
Department News | March 15, 2025
Congratulations to Marco Pravetoni, PhD, winner of the 2025 College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) Innovator Award!
Department News | March 15, 2025
King County has procured a 1.6 acre site adjacent to the Harborview Medical Center campus to support the growth, consolidation, and colocation of Harborview's behavioral health services, which are a critical source of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services in Washington State.
Department News | March 15, 2025
Based on the HaRRT Center’s Harm Reduction Treatment for Alcohol (HaRT-A) study, eHaRT-A will use innovative methods to adapt this in-person intervention into a telehealth platform that can then be tested within Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC), permanent supportive housing facilities around Seattle.
Department News | March 15, 2025
The Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions celebrated five years of improving brain health during its 4th Annual Meeting on March 7, 2025, at UW Medicine South Lake Union.
The Daily | March 5, 2025
“I felt pretty frustrated by the limits of our treatments, and so I was hoping to explore other options in terms of potential treatments,” says Nathan Sackett, MD, MS.
