Former resident Edyth Phillips supports global mental health

Department news | April 30, 2018

After completing a psychiatry residency at UW Medicine in 1967, Edyth Phillips, MD, married, practiced at Seattle Children’s, raised a family and eventually started a private practice, celebrating 50 years of service in 2017. Recently, her long-standing interest in global health inspired her to invest in work being done by Ann Vander Stoep, PhD, and colleagues that […]


New Psychiatry Residency Montana Track at Billings Clinic

Department news | April 30, 2018

We are excited to announce that our department and the Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana are partnering to develop a new Psychiatry Residency Montana Track. This residency track will be similar to our existing Idaho Track, with residents completing the first two years of training in Seattle and the last two years in Montana. The goals […]


Psychiatry residents receive APA/APAF Fellowships

Department news | April 30, 2018

American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) Fellowships provide psychiatry residents the experiential learning, training and professional development they need to be leaders in the field of psychiatry. The fellowship programs offer opportunities to work with Congress on health policy, conduct research, expand access to care to minority and underserved populations, and […]


New UW ALACRITY Center to adapt psychosocial interventions

Department news | April 30, 2018

Although official notice of grant award is in its final phases, all indications are that we will soon have an NIMH-funded P50 grant for an Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Center in our department. ALACRITY Centers support the rapid development, testing, and refinement of novel and integrative approaches […]


Nurse-led clinics implement collaborative care

Department news | April 30, 2018

In a unique collaboration between federal agencies, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is contracting with the UW AIMS Center to provide training and technical assistance to 11 clinics receiving Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funding to implement collaborative care in nurse-led primary care settings. The 11 HRSA Awardee clinics are all safety-net […]


EVO in the classroom

Department news | April 30, 2018

Patricia Areán, PhD, Jessica Jenness, PhD, and the Creativ Lab Team are partnering with Lucille Umbarger Elementary School in Burlington, WA and Akili Interactive on a pilot study that examines the impact of incorporating a therapeutic video game, EVO, into the school day. Susan Novak, 6th grade teacher, and Nick Hayes, principal, reached out to Dr. Areán […]


Program creates nationwide data ecosystem

Department news | April 30, 2018

Biomedical tools and technologies are evolving rapidly, enabling scientists to both generate and analyze more research data than ever before. But what happens when datasets become too large to share or when the data from various sources are so dissimilar that they cannot be combined easily with another related but different dataset? These types of […]


New voluntary psychiatric unit to open at Northwest Hospital

Department news | April 30, 2018

UW Medicine announced that it will open a new 12-bed voluntary psychiatric inpatient unit at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center in the fall of 2019. “The new psychiatric inpatient unit at Northwest Hospital will allow us to serve more patients in a state-of-the-art facility,” said Dr. Jurgen Unutzer, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and […]