JAMA | April 21, 2015
Bryan King, MD comments on a JAMA research paper providing additional evidence on the lack of association between the MMR childhood vaccine and autism.
News & Stories
Podcast: talking neglect with at-risk experts Eric and Casey Trupin
Crosscut | April 7, 2015
Eric Trupin, PhD and his son Casey Trupin converse about how neglect affects children, families and society at large.
Hot topic module: Traumatic Brain Injury and depression
MSKTC | April 1, 2015
Jesse Fann, MD and Charles Bombardier, PhD (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine) collaborate on the development of a large educational module on TBI and Depression.
Telemedicine expands to provide care for rural Veterans with PTSD
U.S. Medicine | April 1, 2015
John Fortney, PhD discusses his study comparing a telemedicine-based Collaborative Care model to usual care regarding PTSD.
Department Embraces Mental Health and Technology
Department news | March 31, 2015
The Department is launching a new Behavioral Science and Technology (BeST) Program to develop and implement solutions to the challenges of mental health treatment through innovative technological applications.
Roger Vilardaga, PhD on Innovation Research Award Team
Department news | March 31, 2015
Roger Vilardaga, Acting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was part of a team of six researchers who received the 2015 UW Innovation Award. The team is building tools for use on a mobile device that let patients easily enter data about their habits and behaviors related to a particular health problem.
Dr. Wayne Katon, pioneer for Collaborative Care in mental health, dies at 64
AJMC | March 4, 2015
Wayne Katon, MD, after more than three decades of helping individuals with mental health and founding collaborative care, dies.
Wayne Katon, who expanded care for mental health, dies
HSNewsBeat | March 3, 2015
Wayne Katon, MD dies at the age of 64. NewsBeat writes about Dr. Katon’s pivotal influences in the field of psychiatry with his collaborative care model, his history with the department, and how he will truly be missed. This article has been deleted from the UW Medicine news site.
Department Launches New Diversity Visiting Medical Student Subinternship Program
Department news | February 28, 2015
Department Launches New Diversity Visiting Medical Student Subinternship Program designed to give fourth-year medical students, from backgrounds historically underrepresented in psychiatry, the opportunity to do a four-week visiting student rotation on an adult inpatient psychiatry rotation at Harborview or a child and adolescent psychiatry rotation at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Should marijuana be used to treat PTSD?
KUOW | February 20, 2015
Douglas Zatzick, PHD discusses medical research that supports marijuana as a fear reducer that has the potential to transfer as a treatment for PTSD.
