Department News | June 23, 2025
We are now happy to begin recruiting for two new endowed positions supported by generous philanthropic support, one with a focus on addiction psychiatry and another with a focus on adult cognitive aging. We are also searching for three new acting assistant professors, psychiatrists and/or psychologists with interest in neuromodulation, mental health and the law, or digital innovation and artificial intelligence (AI).
NBC | June 16, 2025
People love scaring themselves silly, especially when those thrills occur "in a space that we know is actually not objectively dangerous," says Michele Bedard-Gilligan, PhD.
The Atlantic | June 13, 2025
After a lifetime of good fortune, the generation has become vulnerable. “Going forward, you'll find less treatments reaching fruition,” says Thomas Grabowski, MD.
UW Medicine Newsroom | June 5, 2025
This paper shows that schools that experienced shootings had a lower rate of mental health staffing per student than similar schools without shootings, says Keith Hullenaar, PhD.
Seattle Times | June 1, 2025
“Privacy laws can be so hard for everyone involved, but we’re all entitled to privacy,” says Mollie Forrester, MSW.
Department News | May 29, 2025
Congratulations to Ray Hsiao, MD who was named 2025-2026 speaker-elect of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly during the Annual Meeting of the APA in Los Angeles, CA.
Department News | May 29, 2025
We are now happy to begin recruiting for two new endowed positions supported by generous philanthropic support, one with a focus on addiction psychiatry and another with a focus on adult cognitive aging.
Department News | May 29, 2025
We're happy to announce that Jonathan Orrala will be stepping in as co-chair of the department's Staff EDI Committee! Jonathan is a member of our Academic HR team with a focus on faculty recruitment and he became involved with the Staff EDI Committee shortly after joining the department in 2023.
Department News | May 29, 2025
More than 400 people gathered in the UW Husky Union Building for the 2025 Washington State Mental Health Summit on May 13. A partnership between Chad’s Legacy Project, the Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center, and our department, this event put a spotlight on new initiatives advancing mental health care around the state.
Department News | May 29, 2025
David D. Luxton, PhD served as co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee that established the new IEEE Standard for Transparent Human and Machine Agency Identification.
