Department news | February 28, 2023
Congratulations to the recipients of our latest round of Staff Scholarship Awards! Funded by department and philanthropic funds, these awards support professional development of classified and professional staff who work in our department.
Department news | February 28, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that our department has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a new practice-based Suicide Care Research Center directed by Katherine Ann (Kate) Comtois, PhD, MPH.
Department news | February 28, 2023
Myra Parker, JD, MPH, PhD, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the National Network of Public Health Institutes, has produced an Indigenous Evaluation Toolkit.
Department news | February 28, 2023
Marco Pravetoni, PhD, recently traveled to DC to represent the potential we have to make a difference in one of the most compelling human crises our country is facing -- opioid use disorder and related overdoses.
KIMA | February 27, 2023
The DEA is sending out a warning as a new "zombie drug" called Xylazine has made its way into the state. Richard Ries, MD, FAPA, FASM, is quoted.
University of Washington Magazine | February 25, 2023
Marco Pravetoni, PhD, has invested more than a decade of his career to pursuing the development and translation of vaccines and other antibody-based treatment strategies that have eluded scientists for more than half a century.
UW Medicine newsroom | February 24, 2023
William Banks, MD, Shelly Erickson, PhD, and a team of researchers with the UW School of Medicine, the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, and Oregon Health & Science University have shed light on the likely culprit of symptoms like foggy brain and vanishing memory: inflammation.
Psychiatric News | February 23, 2023
Prazosin—a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure—may also reduce drinking by adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to a clinical trial led by Murray Raskind, MD.
WWAMI Wednesday | February 22, 2023
Medical student Connor Hague shares why she created a resource for mental health care for youth in a rural area. She was based in Davenport in Lincoln County, Washington.
The Seattle Times | February 9, 2023
It’s not a normal part of aging to be sad. Whitney Carlson, MD, provides some tips that aging adults, their loved ones and health care providers can use to ensure older people get the mental health care they need.
