Department news | June 27, 2024
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD, has agreed to serve as our new Vice Chair for Faculty Development to support activities such as faculty onboarding and orientation, mentorship, promotions, and support of faculty from backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine.
Department news | June 27, 2024
On June 21, 2024, we celebrated the graduation of our psychiatry residents, psychology residents and ACGME fellows. We are immensely proud of this outstanding group of new mental health professionals and wish them all the best in their future endeavors!
Department news | June 27, 2024
We are pleased to announce our second year of Trainee Research Awards. Part of the Clinician Scientist Training Program (CSTP). These awards support the development of clinician scientists and provide funding and faculty support for trainees to participate in mentored research.
Department news | June 27, 2024
The WA State HCA is taking new action on the opioid crisis with the launch of a program that expands access to medications for opioid use disorder. The program, ScalaNW, equips emergency room clinicians with tools to treat patients for opioid use disorder and connect them to community-based care.
Department news | June 27, 2024
The Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions (GIBHS) is launching a new round of innovation grants focused on projects in applications of artificial intelligence for behavioral health and innovations in discharge as well as community integration after inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.
Department news | June 27, 2024
Brain health disorders have become the largest causes of health-related disability around the world yet we have only a limited understanding of the basic mechanisms of brain function that underlie these disorders. To accelerate progress in the understanding of how brains work and apply this knowledge to develop therapeutic interventions, a UW-led team including chair Jürgen Unützer, MD, is working to grow and support a diverse pipeline of scientists and clinicians in the field of neuroscience.
Department news | June 27, 2024
Two of our longest-standing research training fellowships, the Integrated Mental Health Fellowship and the Psychology Training in Alcohol Research Fellowship, recently received continued federal funding.
Department news | June 27, 2024
Congratulations to the six trainees who recently received funding from the Ventura Endowed Fellowship for Autism Research to support their training and education.
Department news | June 27, 2024
Congratulations to fourth year medical student Brian Lusby, MSc, this year’s recipient of the Margaret O’Donnell Prize in Psychiatry.
Department news | June 27, 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 Association of Academic Psychiatrists (AAP) Resident Psychiatric Educator (RPE) Award recipient, Alexis Carnduff, MD.
