News & Stories

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Department news | March 28, 2024

Marco Pravetoni, PhD, and John Fortney, PhD, spoke about their respective research to national leaders.

Department news | January 31, 2024

When it opens its doors this spring, the new Garvey Institute Center for Neuromodulation will dramatically improve our ability to improve access to treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and other novel therapeutics in one convenient location in the new Center for Behavioral Health and Learning at UWMC-Northwest. Neuromodulation treatments can […]

Department news | January 31, 2024

Over 75 researchers, clinicians, educators and supporters attended the third annual meeting of the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions held today at South Lake Union. Mike and Lynn Garvey who established the Institute with a $ 50 million foundational gift and their daughter Denise Tabbutt and grandson Owen Tabbutt were in the audience as […]

UW Medicine newsroom | December 1, 2023

Harborview Medical Center is one of the first West Coast hospitals to administer the drug, lecanemab. Tom Grabowski, MD, holder of the Tim B. Engle Endowed Professorship for Brain Health Innovations funded by the Garvey Institute, is quoted.