Blue Ridge Academic Health Group | March 1, 2020
The latest Blue Ridge Academic Health Group report explains how behavioral health care has reached a crisis and how academic health centers can play a role in leading change. The report was prepared by some of the most influential leaders in academic medicine including Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH.
Department news | February 29, 2020
Gayle Schneider; colleague, friend, and program support supervisor in our department, passed away on Tuesday, February 18. As many of you know she was battling cancer, yet she continued to work until just weeks prior to her death. This is a testament to the connection she felt with all of us and how being part […]
Department news | February 29, 2020
In January 8, more than one hundred people attended the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Retreat at UW Medicine South Lake Union. The day was a mix of presentations, breakout sessions and Idea Development Workshops (IDWs) followed by our first-ever Research Retreat Reception. The goal of the retreat is to foster collaboration and community among […]
Department news | February 29, 2020
Connectivity research using functional MRI (fMRI) has mapped the large-scale neural networks subserving cognition and behavior and is revolutionizing our understanding of human brain function, development and the alternate developmental trajectories characterizing disorders such as autism and mental illness. However, people with developmental differences like severe autism have largely been omitted from these advances since […]
Department news | February 29, 2020
Findings from a recent study and the subsequent Publication Brief and caught the attention of the VA Central Office. Authors Tracy Simpson, PhD, John Fortney, PhD, Jessica Chen, PhD, and Keren Lehavot, PhD,showed that among Veterans – and unlike civilians – racial/ethnic minorities did not differ from whites in the time it took to initiate treatment for PTSD and depression, and showed there […]
Department news | February 29, 2020
After a year-long, national search, Ryan Kimmel, MD, has been appointed as Chief of Psychiatry at UWMC. He takes over this role during exciting times for UWMC, with the recent incorporation of the Northwest Campus and ongoing planning for a new, 150-bed, behavioral health teaching hospital. He has served as Interim Service Chief since January, 2019. […]
Department news | February 29, 2020
The Washington Society of Addiction Medicine honored Rick Ries, MD, with the Dr. William E. Dickerson Award for the advancement of addiction medicine and psychiatry in recognition for his notable career in service to treating patients with addictions and his many contributions to the advancement of the clinical discipline. Dr. Ries was recognized at the WSAM […]
Psychiatric News | February 28, 2020
To build a workforce equipped to provide effective mental health care in primary care and other settings, we have to think beyond traditional training programs like residencies and fellowships. Jacynda Wheeler shares firsthand insight into the innovative, employment-friendly Community-Based Integrated Care Fellowship funded by the Washington state legislature that is bringing integrated care skills to […]
Memory & Brain Wellness Center | February 27, 2020
Debby Tsuang, MD, is leading a new study to find out if objective measures of sleep and movement patterns can effectively differentiate between people living with symptoms of probable Lewy Body Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In the study subjects will wear an actigraphy monitor to capture walking pace, gait, distance covered, calorie burned and heart […]
Los Angeles Times | February 25, 2020
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said it could neither recommend nor oppose cognitive screening for older adults because there is insufficient scientific evidence of the practice’s benefits and harms. Soo Borson, professor emerita and developer of the Mini-Cog, a brief screening tool for cognitive impairment designed for use in primary care and other non-specialist […]
