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.
Department news | February 29, 2016
Kudos to Dennis Wendt on receiving the Distinguished Dissertation Award in Qualitative Inquiry from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association. Dennis is a clinical psychologist and postdoctoral fellow in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. His postdoctoral work is with the UW Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute and his mentor is ADAI Director Dennis Donovan.
Department news | February 29, 2016
Nina de Lacy, MD, MBA, a fellow in our UW Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is one of three investigators selected this year to participate in the Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program. The KL2 program is a rigorous, three-year, interdisciplinary research program that involves intensive mentoring experience in […]
