Department news | January 31, 2016
Each year, the Outstanding Junior Clinician Teacher Faculty Award honors an outstanding clinician teacher faculty member in our department who is at the instructor or assistant professor level. The award recognizes outstanding teaching, curriculum development, educational research and scholarship, and/or educational administration. The first four recipients of this award were Suzanne Murray (2011), Heidi Combs […]
Department news | January 31, 2016
Cecilia Breinbauer, MD, MPH and Amritha Bhat, MD have been awarded seed money for a Global Parent Child Mental Health Initiative. This initiative is a collaboration between UW Faculty and colleagues from China, Peru, Kenya, and Chile to train care providers, educators, and students on how to work with and talk about mental health issues. In order to […]
BuzzFeedNews | January 31, 2016
Bryan King, MD, comments on a new study that highlights serious problems in how drug companies collect and report side effects.
Psychiatric News | January 29, 2016
Roger Vilardaga, PhD, is developing an evidence-based, easy to use mobile app to help patients with serious mental illness quit smoking.
NPR | January 26, 2016
Evette Ludman, PhD, discusses the newly released recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to screen for depression during and after pregnancy.
UWToday | January 15, 2016
Department faculty members Brian Saelens, PhD, and the late Wayne Katon, MD, are included among “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” for 2015.
The Whole U | January 14, 2016
Pat Areán, PhD, talks about the science behind mobile apps, like video games, that can improve mood, cognition, and social functioning.
U.S.News and World Report | January 13, 2016
UW Psychiatrist Elaine Peskind, MD, discusses the correlation between the severity of traumatic brain injury and the amount of explosions experienced, and what these injuries look like neurologically and socially.
The Seattle Times | January 13, 2016
A new study authored by a team of brain injury experts from the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and UW Medicine, including Elaine Peskind, MD, and James Meabon, MD, shows the cerebellum becomes increasingly damaged the more blasts veterans are exposed to.
Medscape | January 7, 2016
A new Psychiatric Services paper reports on the challenges and benefits psychiatrists and patients experience in an integrated care model. First author Kathyrn Norfleet, MD, an ACGME fellow in the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship program, is quoted.
