Department news | September 30, 2015
Our Department has been conducting an inventory of behavioral health outpatient services across UW medicine in conjunction with the UW Performance Improvement/LEAN team, led by Arkan Kayihan. Referred to as the “consolidation and expansion” project, driving factors include a past need to 1) consider consolidation of our two separate psychiatry resident clinic programs (HMC and […]
Department news | September 30, 2015
The Department’s research training efforts recently received a major boost from an R25 grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The five-year grant will support the UW Psychiatry Resident Research Program (PRRP) and will help double the number of residents in the research training track from two per year to four per year. […]
Department news | September 30, 2015
The Trauma Survivors Outcomes and Support (TSOS) study team assesses the impact of traumatic life events on injured patients at the Harborview Level I Trauma Center, as well as across emergency departments and trauma centers nationally. Currently funded by NIH and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the team conducts comparative effectiveness trials investigating […]
UIC Today | September 30, 2015
Mark Snowden, MD, MPH is a co-investigator on a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded, three-year, $2.5 million study. The researchers will investigate how behavioral therapies affect patients’ adherence to medications and lifestyle recommendations during treatment for co-existing obesity and depression.
WSMA Press Release | September 28, 2015
Assistant Professor Ray Hsiao, MD, was elected president of the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) at the association’s annual meeting in September.
Puget Sound Business Journal | August 25, 2015
The University of Washington embarks on the largest clinical trial involving psychiatric disorders located in rural areas. Examining 1,000 patients with PTSD, bipolar disorder or both, this study will help the University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences best understand how to deal with psychiatric care in rural areas of the state where it is […]
UW Medicine Newsbeat | August 24, 2015
The University of Washington was recently awarded an $11.7 million grant to fund the largest ever clinical trial on psychiatric disorders affecting rural Americans.
King5 | August 18, 2015
Kathleen Myers, MD of Seattle Children’s Hospital discusses the increasing demand and benefits of telepsychiatry.
Newsbeat | August 17, 2015
A new Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center will increase the expertise of primary-care providers, trainees and others in caring for older adults. Michael Vitiello, PhD, will co-direct the Center with Elizabeth Phelan, MD, MS, UW associate professor of medicine.
Newsweek | July 31, 2015
Newsweek has compiled a list of the top cancer doctors in 2015, including University of Washington’s own Jesse Fann, MD who was identified as one of the top doctors of Psychiatry in the cancer and terminal illness fields.
