Department news | March 31, 2016
Rick Ries, Director of our Addictions Division, has been appointed the Addictions “Champion” by Dean Ramsey to lead the ACO process of developing consistent alcohol/drug approaches starting with developing consistent alcohol use screening practices throughout the UW Medicine Accountable Care Network. He will be working with a team led by David Dugdale, UW Medicine medical director for care […]
Department news | March 31, 2016
A record number of our Addictions faculty presented at the Washington State Addiction Medicine conference on March 10-11 in Tulalip, Washington. Our strong representation speaks to the great work we’re doing in the Addictions field. Mark Duncan and Richard Ries presented on media portrayal of addiction, Jon Adelstien gave the Addiction Psychiatry Fellows lecture, Caleb Banta-Green participated in a panel discussion opioid […]
Department news | March 31, 2016
Ian Bennett, a family physician with a joint appointment in Psychiatry and Family Medicine, recently received a NIMH grant to study two different methods of implementing an evidence-based care program for perinatal depression in primary care. In this new 5-year grant, he will work closely with our department’s AIMS Center, Drs. Jürgen Unützer and Amritha Bhat, and 20 Community […]
Department news | March 31, 2016
Our Department has a longstanding history of practice and innovation in telepsychiatric care. Last year alone, we provided more than 15,000 telehealth consultations to primary care providers and other clinicians throughout Washington and the five-state WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) region. Building on our success, we’ve launched a new Psychiatry Consultation and Telepsychiatry […]
Department news | March 31, 2016
UW Medicine is launching a major initiative to bring clinical practice transformation to care delivery with the goals of improving healthcare for individual patients, improving the health of the public, and controlling costs. A group of more than 300 UW Medicine Practice Innovators – including 17 faculty members from our department – will lead this […]
Fast Company | March 17, 2016
An app that targets smokers with severe mental illnesses was developed by Roger Vilardaga, PhD, and Seattle-based digital design firm Smashing Ideas.
Psychiatric News | March 3, 2016
Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, talks about a multi-tiered approach for integrating mental health care into primary care settings that involves increasing levels of involvement by behavioral health specialists based on the needs of the patient.
The Seattle Times | March 1, 2016
The UW Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, directed by Dennis Donovan, PhD, will play a key role in King County’s new effort to tackle heroin addiction. Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, senior researcher at ADAI, is on the 32-member task force.
UW Medicine HEALTHworks | March 1, 2016
Mark Sullivan, MD, discusses the frequent interconnected relationship between mental health and heart health, and what can be done to help heart patients with depression.
Seattle Magazine | March 1, 2016
Michael V. Vitiello, PhD, talks about how our seasonal daylight swing can adversely affect mental health.
