Department news | October 31, 2017
Anna Ratzliff MD, PhD, will assume the role of director of the AIMS Center (Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions) on January 1, 2018. The AIMS Center was founded more than a decade ago by Dr. Unützer and colleagues with the goal of helping implement evidence-based integrated mental health programs locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Ratzliff has […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
Maria Monroe-DeVita, PhD, participated as a guest panelist in an event last month to raise awareness about early psychosis and to fundraise in the name of Zia Larson, a young man who died by suicide after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Larson’s Ray of Light Foundation, created by Zia’s mother, held its first run/walk on September […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
Co-PIs, George Rebok, PhD, and Sherry Willis, PhD, were recently awarded $756k from NIH to do a 20-year follow-up to the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study. This study is the largest randomized clinical trial to examine whether cognitive training enhances both cognitive abilities and everyday functioning in normal older adults. Findings […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
Michael V Vitiello, PhD, and his fellow multiple PIs; Susan McCurry, PhD, Research Professor of Psychosocial and Community Health Nursing, and Michael Von Korff, ScD, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI), have received a two-year, $372,000 Diversity Supplement to their National Institute on Aging-funded five-year randomized controlled trial, Efficacy of Scalable CBT-I […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
Brian Kraemer, PhD, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, has received funding from the National Institute on Aging to study the role of the tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease, using a variety of model organisms, including mouse, C. elegans worm, and human cell models of tau toxicity. Kraemer is a research associate professor in the UW Division […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
Over one hundred faculty and trainees attended the 2nd Annual Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Retreat this month at the Intellectual House on upper campus. The theme of the retreat was research training and mentorship and included engaging discussions of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges in those areas. Attendees also participated in a poster […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The psychiatrists who cover the consult service at UW Medical Center have begun doing consults at Wyoming Medical Center (WMC), a 217 bed hospital and regional trauma center in Casper. WMC is also home to the University of Wyoming’s Family Medicine Residency Program. Wyoming is over 25,000 square miles larger than Washington State, yet the […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The UW Medicine Psychiatry Consultation and Telepsychiatry (PCAT) program recently held a retreat that brought together 20 departmental faculty members to review accomplishments of the program to date and strategic plans for the coming year. PCAT, led by Marc Avery, MD, and supported by Cara Towle, RN, MSN, MA, offers three tiers of telepsychiatry: provider-to-provider consultation, integrated care consultation, […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The mental health workforce in the United States has long faced a disproportionate lack of diversity compared to the patients it treats. According to a 2014 study, 21% of psychiatrists identify as being from a racial or ethnic minority group compared to 37% of Americans who identified as nonwhite in the 2012 census. A lack of […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The School Mental Health Assessment, Research and Training (SMART) Center received funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) for a new, two year Postdoctoral Research Training Program in School Mental Health. The focus of the new fellowship is to prepare education researchers to conduct relevant, high-quality research focused on the […]
