Department news | December 31, 2017
Congratulations to Jonathan Buchholz, MD, who has been selected as the 2017 recipient of our department’s Outstanding Junior Clinician Teacher Faculty Award! This award honors an exceptional clinician teacher faculty member at the Assistant or Acting Assistant Professor level. Dr. Buchholz completed his undergraduate degree in English, and his MD, psychiatry residency, and addiction psychiatry fellowship […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
A team consisting of Jennifer Piel, MD, JD, Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, Kate Michaelsen, MD, Deborah Cowley, MD, and project manager Susan Reynolds completed and submitted to the Washington State legislature a superb analysis and proposal for high-quality forensic teaching services. In collaboration with Western State Hospital (WSH), Department of Social and Health Services, and the Office of Forensic Mental Health Services, the proposal […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
All Patients Safe: Suicide Prevention for Medical Professionals, an online training that fulfills the new state law requiring health professionals to complete a one-time training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management, had a tremendously successful launch in mid-November. Nearly 750 providers signed up in the first month and 175 people have completed the training thus […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
This year’s recipient of the Joseph Becker Research Award is Stephanie Brewer, PhD, a Child Track resident in the Psychology Internship Program. The award stimulates quality research by rewarding a psychology resident for independence, creativity and intellectual depth in a research effort. Although clinicians frequently modify evidence-based treatments (EBT) during implementation to improve contextual and cultural […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has funded the Native Center for Alcohol Research and Education (NCARE) devoted to working with Native communities across the United States to co-create and evaluate interventions that address alcohol problems. This Center will be led by Dedra Buchwald, MD, founding Director of Washington State University’s Partnerships for […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
Seema Clifasefi, PhD, and Raphe Bernier, PhD, both received funding for a 2018 Academic/Community Partnership Award given by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies program. Academic/Community Partnership Award given by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies program. The purpose of the award is to […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
The Evidence-Based Practice Institute (EBPI), in collaboration with the Washington Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery/Department of Social and Health Services, has released the FY17/18 Evidence-Based Reporting Guides for children’s public mental health. The Reporting Guides use a flexible essential elements approach in directing therapists how to document the use of evidence-based practices in individual therapy […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
The Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy (PBHJP) is thrilled to announce its new Youth Internship Program. Habeebullah Rasheed-Pipkin, Matthew Foster and Desire Lyons are members of Community Passageways, an organization based in South King County that provides youth formal diversion from the juvenile justice system and provides support to youth in the community through restorative justice practices, […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
Over $1 million was raised at The Benefit event in November to support a new UW Medicine Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center. In addition to improved crisis intervention and telepsychiatry consultation services, the Institute will initially focus on building a First Episode Psychosis Program that takes a population health approach to comprehensive clinical […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
Our department has tremendous expertise to contribute to the opioid public health emergency declared by President Trump in October. Addiction psychiatry is the single strongest area in our department and our addictions program is consistently ranked among the top 10 in the country. We have expertise across the entire age spectrum and in all areas […]
