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 Remembering Dick Miyoshi
Dick Miyoshi, a pharmacist at Harborview Medical Center and a clinical professor in our department, died in January from pancreatic cancer. He was a close friend, colleague, and teacher for many of our residents and faculty and made significant contributions to our department over the years.
Dick was a wonderful example of a truly outstanding and dedicated teacher. For decades, he taught residents about psychopharmacology and was the recipient of numerous resident teaching awards. He taught and consulted with many of our faculty members and graduates of our residency program, and was the go-to person in our department for clinical psychopharmacology questions. He was known for his outstanding ability to forge therapeutic alliances with patients and his ability to model empathy and a therapeutic connection.
Dick won the Department’s Tucker Award in 2015 for his outstanding skills as a teacher and his dedication to education throughout his career. He will be truly missed.
 Welcome to Mark Reger!
Mark A. Reger, PhD is the new Chief of Psychology Services for the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Prior to joining the VA, Dr. Reger worked as the Deputy Director for the Department of Defense’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology (T2), located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. He provided senior oversight for six Divisions involved with the research, development, and implementation of technologies to provide behavioral health solutions, assessment, and support to service members, veterans and their families. He also served as the Chief of the Research Division at T2, where he directed a team of research psychologists working to address military behavioral health issues and suicide risk. He led the development and implementation of the Department of Defense’s suicide surveillance system, including the data collection procedures, analyses, and reporting, and has co-authored the DoD’s official annual suicide surveillance report for the last 7 years.
Dr. Reger has served as the principal investigator for multiple large studies including a large federally-funded epidemiological study of military suicide. He has extensive experience conducting clinical trials, and authored about 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics including military suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder, telepsychology, neuroendocrinology and research ethics.
Dr. Reger completed his doctorate in clinical psychology at the Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University. He completed a three-year National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellowship at the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System/University of Washington School of Medicine.
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New Award Honors Wayne Katon
The Department is pleased to announce the establishment of the Wayne J. Katon Outstanding Mentor Award. This prestigious award acknowledges the time, dedication, and attention faculty members devote to fostering the career development and academic success of colleagues and trainees in the areas of research, clinical practice and education. Through this award, the Department honors and celebrates the valuable efforts of faculty members who embody Dr. Katon’s spirit of mentoring. One PBSCI faculty member will be selected each year and will be recognized at the graduation ceremony as well as the Department faculty meeting on June 13, 2016. Nominations will open in mid-February. Please contact Jane Corkery-Hahn for details about the nomination and selection process.
Save the Date -- Faculty Teaching Retreat
The annual Faculty Teaching Retreat will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday April 6 at the Urban Horticulture Center, starting with lunch at noon. This retreat is open to all faculty members who teach, and will focus on how to develop, publish, and obtain peer review for a curriculum and on how to achieve regional and national recognition as an educator. Please RSVP to Athena Wong if you would like to attend.
Faculty Development
Tips for Mentors and Mentees. Would you like to be as effective as possible as a mentor or as a mentee? Please see Tips for Mentors and Mentees on the Faculty Mentorship Program page on the department’s intranet.
Department Mentors and Mentorship Committees. Every junior faculty member (i.e. Acting Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor) is now being assigned a departmental mentor. If you have one of these titles and don’t have an official departmental mentor, please contact Deb Cowley and/or Jane Corkery-Hahn. It used to be that the official departmental mentorship program only began at the level of Assistant Professor (i.e. there was no official mentor for people with Acting titles) and took the form of a three-person mentorship committee. Now, mentorship committees are not required; you can just have your assigned department mentor. However, when you become an Assistant Professor, if you and/or your department mentor think you would benefit from having a mentorship committee to provide more varied input, please let us know and we will help arrange this.
Peer Review for Curricula. Do you have a scholarly curriculum that you would like to have peer reviewed? Don’t wait until just before your promotions packet is due! You can have your curriculum reviewed at any time so that you can improve it and develop it further as a high quality teaching and scholarly product. Please talk to your department mentor about potential peer reviewers (local or national) and contact Jane Corkery-Hahn and/or Deb Cowley to arrange for the department to request a formal peer review.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Match
Our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship program had a very successful match on January 6! For the first time, the program has expanded its number of entering fellows to six, and the group of fellows entering on July 1, 2016 is truly outstanding! Congratulations to our Child program for another great recruitment year!
Psychosomatic Medicine Fellows for 2016-17
Our Psychosomatic Medicine fellowship program, directed by Marcella Pascualy, MD, has had another outstanding Match! The following three people will join us on July 1, 2016 as Psychosomatic Medicine fellows: Julia Edwards – University of Washington Psychiatry Residency; Reina Maeda – Duke Psychiatry Residency; and Nathaniel (Nate) Sowa – University of North Carolina Psychiatry Residency. We look forward to having them join us!
APA Launches New Training Program
The APA partnered with the AIMS Center on the newly released Applying the Integrated Care Approach, a two-part online course that trains psychiatrists in Collaborative Care. The course is helpful to any psychiatrist wanting to leverage his/her skills in new ways and positively impact access and quality of mental health treatment for a population of patients. The online training course is offered as part of the APA’s new CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) Support and Alignment Network (SAN). Psychiatrists who complete the training are eligible to earn up to six Continuing Medical Education credits.
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Global Parent-Child Mental Health Initiative
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 help build mental health capacity in these global communities, each country’s participants will have 14 video lectures specifically tailored to that country’s interests and needs. Partners in each country will hold collaborative meetings within their communities to strengthen local mental health networks, and will conduct onsite visits in other countries to facilitate a cross-cultural dialogue on how to improve and approach mental health. Congratulations to Drs. Breinbauer and Bhat!
4 for 4 with PCORI LOIs
Department faculty submitted four LOIs to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and all were invited to prepare a full proposal, a remarkable achievement. Submissions included Lydia Chwastiak's "Comparing Biomedical, Psychological and Social Approaches to Managing Treatment-Resistant Depression in Safety Net Clinics," Amy Bauer and Pat Areán's "Comparing Stepped Internet Based Psychotherapy to In-Person Psychotherapy for Mild to Moderate Depression," Mark Sullivan's subcontract with Group Health Research Institute on "A Comparison of 2 Clinic Based Interventions to Reduce Opioid Risk vs Reduce Opioid Risk and Dose," and Mark Sullivan's subcontract with the University of Cincinnati on "Evaluating the Management of Pain with Opioid-therapy, Web-based physician training, and increased patient self-management through E-health: a Randomized multi-site clinical trial in primary care (EMPOWER)."
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Opportunity for Junior Faculty
The UW K12 in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) is an institutional training program to support mentored career development research in the field of PCOR. The program is currently seeking to appoint 2-3 junior faculty-level trainees to begin on August 1, 2016. This is a 2-3-year mentored career development training program that includes 80%-100% FTE of salary and benefit support for research training per year. Support is provided for skills development through didactic training and an innovative program of real-world experiences. Applications are due March 1, 2016. More information.
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UW Medicine Seeks Clinical Practice Innovators
Carlos Pellegrini, MD, UW Medicine's Chief Medical Officer, is assembling a group of clinical practice innovators across all departments to pave the way for clinical practice transformation at UW Medicine. This new group of leaders will take part in an innovative curriculum sponsored by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and best practice organizations, be invited to special seminars and meetings with physician executives, and take part in a certificate training program designed to sharpen skills as health system reform leaders. UW Medicine will be looking to this group to lead change within departments; to represent UW Medicine in local, regional and national forums; and to blaze a new path for academic medicine. If you are interested in leading UW Medicine's transformation of care, please contact Jürgen Unützer.
VA Offers Same Day Mental Health Services
Access to quality mental health care is one of the most critical issues in mental health and at the Department of Veterans Affairs, in particular. The VA Puget Sound Health Care System offers a number of innovative and highly effective same day access points to mental health services for Veterans in the Puget Sound region.
The Psychiatric Assessment and Clinical Center (PACC) at the American Lake Division of VA Puget Sound Health Care System provides same day mental health services to Veterans who are experiencing acute psychiatric concerns that are interfering with day-to-day functioning, and/or are new to care. PACC staff triage, evaluate, and manage Veterans requesting mental health services due to a wide variety of psychiatric conditions. PACC is located on the 1st Floor of Building 61 at the American Lake Division of VA Puget Sound Health Care System (VAPSHCS).
Similar services are available through the Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) in the Emergency Department at the Seattle Division and a dedicated PACC, at the Seattle Division, is in development. Moreover, the Mental Health Service at VAPSHCS maintains a ‘no wrong door’ approach to mental health access. Consequently, same-day access is available for every Veteran across all nine sites of care within mental health, emergency room, and/or primary care settings.
Across all sites of care, any Veteran seeking urgent mental health services may simply walk in. This exceptional access to mental health services provides outstanding care to our Veterans, and supports the diverse needs of this large population across Puget Sound.
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Dear friends and colleagues,
