Julia Ruark, MD, MPH
Personal Statement
I am a board certified psychiatrist and work at SCCA and at UW Medical Center. I am a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. I obtained a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry, a specialty that focuses on providing psychiatric care for people with complex medical conditions. My primary clinical focus is people with cancer. I love my work. Being ill is a vulnerable time and my goal is to ease suffering and provide a sense of connection and understanding for all I work with. I believe in working collaboratively with patients and families. We work together to identify what the goals of treatment are. I have expertise in diagnosis, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy and adapt my recommendations to best serve the goals of the person before me.Education
UW - Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, 2017, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
UW - Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Residency, 2016, Psychiatry
Univ. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Doctor of Medicine, 2012
Univ. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Masters of Public Health, 2010
Department Affiliations
Training Programs
Scholarly Expertise
- Addiction
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Collaborative Care / Integrated Care
- Consult psychiatry/psychology
- Depression
- Harm reduction
- Health behaviors
- Health risk behavior(s)
- Inpatient psychiatry/psychology
- Measurement-based care
- Medication management
- Neurocognitive disorders
- Neurodegenerative disorders, dementia, Alzheimer's
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
- Outpatient psychiatry/psychology
- Palliative care
- Patient-centered outcomes
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychological distress
- Psychotherapies
- Quality Improvement (QI)
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep-wake disorders
- Suicide
- Telepsychiatry/psychology
- Telepsychiatry/telepsychology
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Clinical Expertise
- Addictions and substance use disorders
- Anxiety disorders/social phobias
- Bipolar Disorder / manic depression
- Borderline personality disorder
- Caregivers
- Consultation-Liaison psychiatry/psychology
- Delirium and catatonia
- Depression
- General psychiatric illness and conditions
- Medically complex
- Mood Disorders
- Neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Dementia)
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Outpatient psychiatry/psychology
- Palliative psychiatry/psychology
- Panic disorders
- Perinatal mental health
- Psycho-oncology
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
- Serious Mental Illness (SMI)
- Suicidality and self destructive behaviors
- Telepsychiatry/psychology
- Women's health
- Behavioral Activation (BA)
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Collaborative Care / Integrated Care
- Crisis intervention
- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Addictions
- Medication management/psychopharmacology
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Safety Assessments
- Suicide prevention
- Telepsychiatry
Recent Publications
Case Report of Akathisia in a Patient With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma on Nivolumab.
(2021 Jan-Feb)
J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry 62(1): 119-122
Ho SX, Gass CE, Ruark JM
(2021 Jan-Feb)
J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry 62(1): 119-122
Ho SX, Gass CE, Ruark JM
Patient-Reported Neuropsychiatric Outcomes of Long-Term Survivors after Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy.
(2020 Jan)
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 26(1): 34-43
Ruark J, Mullane E, Cleary N, Cordeiro A, Bezerra ED, Wu V, Voutsinas J, Shaw BE, Flynn KE, Lee SJ, Turtle CJ, Maloney DG, Fann JR, Bar M
(2020 Jan)
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 26(1): 34-43
Ruark J, Mullane E, Cleary N, Cordeiro A, Bezerra ED, Wu V, Voutsinas J, Shaw BE, Flynn KE, Lee SJ, Turtle CJ, Maloney DG, Fann JR, Bar M
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