Department News | September 30, 2025
Earlier this year, the department formed a new Research Council to provide a dedicated forum to address challenges and opportunities related to our research mission. To lead this new council, we are delighted to announce that Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH has agreed to serve as Vice Chair for Research beginning this fall.
Puget Sound Business Journal | September 30, 2025
Department Chair Jürgen Unützer, MD will be recognized as Doctor of the Year at the seventh annual PSBJ Health Care Leadership Awards in December.
PubliCola | September 25, 2025
In this op-ed, Susan Collins, PhD writes about involuntary addiction treatment and responds to Dr. Keith Humphrey's New York Times op-ed titled "Forced drug treatment isn't horrific. It's a relief.
KUOW | August 26, 2025
Stabilizing someone after a drug overdose is critical to their survival, but that’s often not the end of their struggle. Caleb Banta-Green, PhD talks about a new recovery option in Seattle.
AXIOS Seattle | August 21, 2025
David Avery, MD and other researchers have tracked bipolar patients whose sleep and mood cycles lined up almost perfectly with lunar rhythms.
JAMA Network | August 20, 2025
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD and Andy Saxon, MD discuss their new paper and how the collaborative care model can be adapted to treat opioid use disorder.
Scientific American | August 19, 2025
Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep — and it could help ward off dementia. Jeff Iliff, PhD is interviewed.
KUOW | August 13, 2025
The FDA recently announced plans to restrict a substance called 7-OH, one of the compounds in kratom. Caleb Banta-Green, PhD discusses it in this interview from KUOW.
Columbia Basin Herald | August 12, 2025
Building on work spearheaded by ADAI, the WA State Department of Health has unveiled a new online tool to help residents swiftly locate free Narcan.
UW News | August 6, 2025
A team of researchers including Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD found that explicitly biased chatbots often try to persuade users by shifting how they frame topics.
