Department News | November 26, 2025
We’re thrilled to share that Farzaneh Farhadi, MD, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Austen Riggs Award for Excellence in Psychotherapy.
News & Stories
Morgan Liu and Nikitha Pothireddy win poster award at ACLP meeting
Department News | November 26, 2025
Congratulations to psychiatry residents Nikitha Pothireddy, MD and Morgan Liu, MD who won second place for the Best Trainee Poster award at the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) annual meeting in San Antonio, TX.
CMHIS celebrates first year of mental health implementation support
Department News | November 26, 2025
As CMHIS enters its second year, the Pacific West Hub team met to reflect on lessons learned and set priorities for the year ahead.
Streamlining outpatient behavioral health referrals
Department News | November 26, 2025
Led by Mollie Forrester, MSW, LICSW, and Ryan Kimmel, MD, we have started work on a new access project to create a unified, patient-centered behavioral health referral system across UW Medicine.
Donor support for PES Peers at Harborview is extended
Department News | November 26, 2025
With renewed support from the Hoveida Family Foundation, the PES Peers program is being extended, and additional efforts will be made to share lessons from the pilot project with community partners.
Andy Saxon receives Outstanding Achievement & Service Award
Department News | November 26, 2025
Congratulations to Andy Saxon, MD, recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Achievement and Service Award from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP).
What to know about the deadly cannabis hyperemesis syndrome
Axios | November 25, 2025
Chronic cannabis users suffering from cannabis hyperemesis syndrome can now be formally diagnosed. Beatriz Carlini, PhD, MPH is quoted.
Syndrome linked to chronic cannabis use gets formal ID by World Health Organization
KOMO News | November 19, 2025
Now that we have a name, we can better educate society that, yes, cannabis helps control nausea in some people, but for others it's the exact opposite, explains Beatriz Carlini, PhD, MPH.
Questioning the boundary between pain and suffering
Psychology Today | November 19, 2025
Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD writes that medicine sees pain as the cause of suffering, but suffering causes pain too. We need to focus attention on the unified problem of pain and suffering.
Disabling cannabis gets formal clinical identity
UW Medicine Newsroom | November 18, 2025
"A new code for cannabis hyperemesis syndrome will supply important hard evidence on cannabis-adverse events, which physicians tell us is a growing problem,” says Beatriz Carlini, PhD, MPH.
