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Welcome to our new HR Mananger, Rachel Reichert
As a second generation alumnus of the University of Washington, Rachel Reichert, MA is very excited to join our department as the new Human Resources Manager. She comes with ten years of experience at the UW.
Rachel began her career at the UW in Student Fiscal Services supporting student loan programs. After obtaining her master’s degree in policy studies from the UW, Rachel worked as a program manager supporting the Interdisciplinary Pathobiology Program, and most recently served as the Academic Human Resources Manager in the Department of Global Health. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, dancing Argentinean tango and she is trying to learn to fly fish. Rachel holds bachelor of arts degrees in business and anthropology. Rachel’s office is in BB1644 and she is happy for people to stop in and say hello. Her email is rreicher@uw.edu.
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Addictions Psychiatry Fellows for 2016-2017
The new 2016 Addictions Psychiatry Fellows, deriving from our very own UW Psychiatry Residency Program, are Matt Iles-Shih, Lauren Pomerantz Augello, and Mark Ellestad. These three will be participating in a one-year program, directed by Andrew Saxon, that enables fellows with the skills to assume leadership positions in the field.
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellows for 2016-2017
Congratulations to our Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship program, directed by Stephen Thielke, on recruiting Malaika Magwene and Tenley Rivera for 2016-2017. Malaika and Tenley are both currently PGY-4s in our Psychiatry Residency program.
Integrated Care Fellowship Recruits Trainees
Our department is starting a new Integrated Care Fellowship this summer. This state-funded, one-year fellowship, directed by Anna Ratzliff, will provide clinical and leadership experience, scholarly opportunities, and implementation education in integrated care including collaborative care models, telemedicine, and outreach across Washington State. We are delighted to announce we have recruited Sara Haack from UW and Seeta Patel from Harvard South Shore as the first two fellows. They will begin July 1, 2016.
Faculty Development
Ready to be Promoted to Professor?
If you are wondering whether you are ready to apply for promotion to Professor and/or if you would like some informal consultation about how to get to this point, please contact Deb Cowley or Jane Corkery-Hahn.
Attention All Preceptors!
If you’re a post-doc fellowship director in need of a graduation certificate for your fellow, please contact Athena Wong.
Accepting Nominations for the
Wayne J. Katon Outstanding Mentor Award
The Wayne J. Katon Outstanding Mentor 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 is selected each year. Please contact Jane Corkery Hahn for details about the nomination and the selection process. Nominations will be accepted March 1 through April 30, 2016.
Psychiatry and the Law Offered Spring Quarter
Interested in forensic mental health? “Psychiatry and the Law” (PBSCI-525) is a dynamic class taught by Jennifer Piel and Ed Goldenberg aimed at trainees interested in learning more about the fascinating interface of law and psychiatry. Learners participate in didactic curriculum, explore the ethical issues in forensic research, and design and complete an individual research project. The course will be held Mondays on the main campus from 7-9:20pm beginning March 28th. To register, go through the main campus registration process. Questions? Contact Jennifer Piel. .
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KL2 Training Program Recruits Psychiatrst
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 a specific area of study and provides its scholars with 75% protected time to focus on their individual research goals.
De Lacy is a child psychiatrist working clinically with children and adults who have genetic syndromes and brain malformations. Her research is in the area of “big data” systems neuroscience, looking at how different regions of the human brain behave when they activate together in large-scale neural networks. This involves applying advanced computational techniques, such as dynamic correlation analysis and machine learning, to functional MRI data from hundreds or thousands of individuals. Her ultimate goal is to uncover mechanisms, biomarkers, and subtypes in autism that could be useful in diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. de Lacy came to UW for her residency training in 2011 before entering the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program. She was attracted to Seattle by the strength of our department and training programs, as well as the UW’s world-leading departments of Applied Mathematics, Genome Sciences, and Biostatistics.
“The KL2 award is a very important award in terms of my transition to independent investigator,” said de Lacy. “I’ve been particularly fortunate at the UW in gaining mentorship from so many talented psychiatry and pediatrics faculty, having supportive training directors, and receiving the sponsorship of Drs. Unützer and King.”
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Department Psychiatrists Work in UWMC Transplant Services
Needing an organ transplant can be an incredibly harrowing, stressful prospect. In addition to dealing with the difficulties of living with a life-threatening chronic disease such as liver cancer, kidney failure or pulmonary fibrosis, they must endure the difficult process of being evaluated for organ transplantation. Patients with life-threatening chronic medical conditions have substantially higher rates of comorbid psychiatric conditions such as major depression and anxiety disorders than the general population. These psychiatric conditions, if present after a transplant, can compromise patients’ abilities to participate in the complex medical care and medication regimen required to prevent rejection of the transplanted organ. Therefore, psychiatrists and psychologists have often been involved in the care of organ transplant patients.
Department faculty members Dimitry Davydow and Ty Lostutter work with Transplant Services at UWMC to identify patients who are struggling with psychiatric illnesses as they go through the organ transplant process. They provide guidance to transplant colleagues, evidence-based treatments (e.g., pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy) to patients, and input into candidate selection. Dr. Davydow has collaborated closely with the liver and lung transplant programs in the development and implementation of a psychiatric and substance use screening assessment for all new transplant referrals as well as systematic depression screening for all lung transplant recipients. In addition, Drs. Davydow and Lostutter work with potential kidney and living liver donors, and work closely with the new vascularized composite allograft (e.g., face, limb) transplant program.
Ringing in the New Year with the Memory and Brain Wellness Center!
As 2016 begins, geriatric psychiatrists Shaune DeMers and Ruth Kohen are enjoying their work in the UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center (MBWC) clinic at Harborview Medical Center. Along with a multidisciplinary team of neurologists, geriatricians, neuropsychologists, and social workers, they provide compassionate mental health care for individuals with age-related memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias. In the spirit of the UW MBWC’s clinical mission, Drs. DeMers and Kohen help patients and their families adjust to cognitive challenges over time and discover new ways to enjoy personal strengths.
In addition to providing expert diagnosis and treatment of these disorders and of associated neuropsychiatric and behavioral conditions, they supervise psychiatry residents and geriatric psychiatry fellows during six-month rotations in the clinic.
The UW Memory Brain Wellness Center’s memory clinic is directed by Dr. Thomas Grabowski. For more information, please contact the Program Manager of Community Education and Impact, Marigrace Becker.
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New on Our Website
We've added a section on our Integrated Care Training Program to reflect the wide array of integrated care educational opportunities our department offers for psychiatry residents, psychiatry fellows, community psychiatrists and other health care providers. Check it out!
New! Psychiatry Department Photo Library
We now have a small collection of department photos representing our clinical, educational, and research efforts, and we will continually be adding more. If you have photos to share, please send them to Rebecca Sladek.
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Dear friends and colleagues,