Julia Ruark, MD, MPH
Personal Statement
I am a board certified psychiatrist and work at SCCA and at UW Medical Center. I am an Acting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. I obtained a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry, a speciality that focuses on providing psychiatric care for people with complex medical conditions. I work with cancer patients and patients who are admitted to the medical wards at UWMC. 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 Medical Education, 2012
Univ. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Master, 2010
Department Affiliations
Training Programs
Scholarly Expertise
- Addiction
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Collaborative Care / Integrated Care
- Consult psychiatry/psychology
- Depression
- Health behaviors
- Health risk behavior(s)
- Inpatient psychiatry/psychology
- 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
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Safety Assessments
- Suicide prevention
- Telepsychiatry
Recent Publications
(2021 Jan-Feb)
J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry 62(1): 119-122
Ho SX, Gass CE, Ruark JM
(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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