Clinician Scientist Training Program (CSTP)

The Clinician Scientist Training Program supports the development of clinician scientists in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. This effort is supported by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.

Leadership:

Jesse Fann, MD, MPH

CSTP Website

Main Challenge

The UW has some of the largest research programs in behavioral health in the world, but only a relatively small number of our medical students and psychiatry residents actively participate in research during their training. According to the latest Missions Management Tool published by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the UW School of Medicine ranks above the 90th percentile for total research federal grants and contracts, but only about half of our medical school graduates and an even smaller proportion of our psychiatry residents participate in research during their time with us.

Our Approach

We will develop Clinician Scientists by identifying, engaging and supporting students, trainees and early career faculty who are interested in research.

Key strategies:

Contact

Jesse Fann, MD, MPH
Director of the Clinician Scientist Training Program
Mark N. Tabbutt Endowed Professor for Education in Brain Health
fann@uw.edu

Andie Uomoto, MPA
Project Manager of Strategic Initiatives
uomotoa@uw.edu

Department Faculty

Amritha Bhat, MBBS, MD, MPH

Taylor Black, MD

Brittany Blanchard, PhD

Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH

Katherine Anne (Kate) Comtois, PhD, MPH

Jesse Fann, MD, MPH

Kevin Hallgren, PhD

Rebecca Hendrickson, MD, PhD

Jacqueline Hobbs, MD, PhD

Matt Iles-Shih, MD, MPH

Ty Lostutter, PhD

John Neumaier, MD, PhD

Laurel Pellegrino, MD

Patrick Raue, PhD

Michael J. Schrift, DO, MA, FANPA

Stephen Thielke, MD, MS, MA

Debby Tsuang, MD, MSc

Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA

Larry Wissow, MD, MPH

Sample Projects

A pilot trial on EMA habit formation behavioral strategies for improving engagement of digital mindfulness interventions among non-suicidal self-injury engagers

A scalable psychoeducational intervention to improve sexual quality of life in women by addressing reproductive anxiety

Acceptability and feasibility of a single-session + digital mental health intervention for people with psychosis on an acute psychiatric inpatient unit

Biomarkers in the retina for prognosticating mental health treatments (BRIGHT)

Community resilience to late life depression among first generation Asian Indian immigrants in the greater Seattle area (The CREED Seattle Study)

Debriefing after adverse events using the RECover Framework

Default mode network impairments in comorbid anxiety and cannabis use disorders

Developing person-specific signatures of momentary risk for alcohol use

Discovering how a task-shifted Care Manager workforce of community health workers can address geriatric mental health

Engagement patterns in pediatric integrated behavioral health: investigating service utilization and attrition among children with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders

Event- related potential (ERP) as a biomarker for subtyping neurobiology of PTSD: A pilot study

Examining the cross-cultural applicability of the Spanish PMQ-9: a comparative validation study

Exploring the implementation determinants of paraprofessional task-shared mental roles in integrated behavioral care settings in Washington State 

From symptom relief to subtype identification: exploring patterns of cannabis use in PTSD

How fentanyl changes the brain: assessing mood, cognition, and withdrawal using animal models of addiction and brain-wide neural activity markers

Immune changes with neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia

Improving risk-stratification of substance-induced psychosis: incorporating stakeholder perspectives and implementing a standardized assessment of risk factors

Improving the implementation of smartphone-based contingency management in medical settings for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder: a qualitative analysis of patient and clinician experiences

Machine learning algorithms using natural language processing: A new screening approach for inpatient violence based on clinical notes 

Psychomotor function of Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine system during decision-making

Psychosis beyond symptoms: Cognitive and genetic biomarkers of schizophrenia

Self-directed mindfulness in medically hospitalized patients: a pragmatic trial

Substance Use Disorder assessment tools in jails & prisons: a systematic review

Subtyping the neurobiology of PTSD through novel methods for the alpha- and beta-adrenergic autonomic nervous system components: a pilot study

Unraveling the genetics of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with large-language models

Validating changes in a primary-care based alcohol use screening instrument for predicting changes in risk for psychiatric acute care utilization