The Huddle | November 13, 2024
New Center for Behavioral Health and Learning (CBHL) addresses WA's need for mental health care with treatments including neuromodulation therapies, an intensive outpatient program, and support for caregivers.
News & Stories
Electroconvulsive therapy is not what you think it is
Right as Rain | September 18, 2024
Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH and Brandon Thomas, MD, PhD talk about two effective neuromodulation therapies, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
UW Medicine opens new center for behavioral health care and training the next generation of mental health professionals
UW Magazine | September 17, 2024
After years of advocating, planning and building, and a $244 million investment from the state, UW Medicine has opened the Center for Behavioral Health and Learning, an expansion of existing services on UW Medical Center’s Northwest campus.
Care for all: UW Medicine opens new center for behavioral health care and training the next generation of mental health professionals
UW Magazine | September 17, 2024
After years of advocating, planning and building, and a $244 million investment from the state, UW Medicine has opened the Center for Behavioral Health and Learning, an expansion of existing services on UW Medical Center’s Northwest campus.
A new behavioral health center from UW Medicine delivers much needed care and training
UW Magazine | September 12, 2024
With a $244 million investment from the state, CBHL adds 150 psychiatric hospital beds and is part of an ambitious new approach to caring for individuals living with mental illness.
Announcing our newest endowed professors – Randall Espinoza and Rebecca Hendrickson
Department News | September 3, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH, has been named the inaugural holder of the Garvey Family Endowed Professorship for Technology and Brain Health and is serving as the Medical Director of the Garvey Institute Center for Neuromodulation located in CBHL. We are also pleased to announce that Rebecca Hendrickson, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural holder of the Denise L. Tabbutt Endowed Professorship for Trauma and Brain Health. Dr. Hendrickson cares for patients in the VA Puget Sound's outpatient posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clinic.
Garvey Institute Innovation Grants: New round supports AI in behavioral health, hospitalization discharge
Department news | June 27, 2024
The Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions (GIBHS) is launching a new round of innovation grants focused on projects in applications of artificial intelligence for behavioral health and innovations in discharge as well as community integration after inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.
CSTP awards over $140K in research funding to trainees
Department news | June 27, 2024
We are pleased to announce our second year of Trainee Research Awards. Part of the Clinician Scientist Training Program (CSTP). These awards support the development of clinician scientists and provide funding and faculty support for trainees to participate in mentored research.
Mushrooms may not be magic, but they could be therapeutic
Seattle Met | May 30, 2024
Nathan Sackett, MD, MS, is heading up a study to explore the potential therapeutic value of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in mushrooms.
A new era for behavioral health in Washington State
UW Medicine leadership | April 16, 2024
The opening of the Center for Behavioral Health and Learning on April 16 marks a new era in addressing our state’s need for additional behavioral health services and workforce training.