Jürgen Unützer is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and health services researcher. His work focuses on innovative models that integrate mental health and general medical services and on translating research on evidence-based behavioral health interventions into effective clinical and public health practice. He has over 200 scientific publications and is the recipient of numerous federal and foundation grants and awards for his research to improve the health and mental health of populations through patient-centered integrated mental health services.

Dr. Unützer is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Chief of Psychiatric Services at the UW Medical Center. He also holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Health Services at the UW School of Public Health and Affiliate Investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, WA.

Dr. Unützer directs the AIMS Center and the IMPACT Program which has supported national and international testing and implementation of an evidence-based program for depression care. IMPACT has been shown in randomized controlled trials to double the effectiveness of usual care for depression while lowering long-term health care costs. In recent years, Dr. Unützer’s work has focused on developing and supporting local, regional, and state-wide partnerships that improve access to evidence-based care through workforce development and capacity building in primary and behavioral health care (MHIP).

Dr. Unützer has served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the World Health Organization and as an advisor to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He works with national and international organizations dedicated to improving behavioral health care for diverse populations. His awards include the Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars Award in Aging Research from the American Foundation for Aging Research, the Klerman Junior Investigator Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the Research Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Oken Fellowship from the American Psychosomatic Society.

Dr. Unützer trained in Public Policy (MA, University of Chicago), Medicine (MD, Vanderbilt University) and Public Health (MPH, University of Washington). He completed fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA and in Primary Care Psychiatry / Health Services Research at the University of Washington.

Douglas Zatzick is Associate Director for Research of the AIMS Center. He is also Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at the University of Washington and a member of the Core Research Faculty at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. Dr. Zatzick's intervention studies target post-traumatic symptom reduction (i.e. post-traumatic stress disorder and depression) and the modification of high risk behaviors that risk recurrent injury, such as alcohol and drug abuse/dependence. Dr. Zatzick is currently the principal investigator on a study that is delivering early combined interventions targeting PTSD and alcohol use to injured trauma survivors treated in acute care medical settings.

Edward A. Walker, MD, MHA, is the founding director of the UW Healthcare Leadership Development Alliance. He holds two academic appointments at the university, the Cheryl M Scott / Group Health Cooperative Professor of Health Services and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Walker is nationally recognized for his expertise in coaching and developing physicians and other senior healthcare leaders, improving quality measures, and leading change in medical institutions. A seasoned physician executive and active clinician, he brings together expertise in clinical systems improvement and a clinically-informed coaching style that has allowed him to assist physicians and senior executives in their journey of self-improvement and professional growth.

While completing a Masters Degree in Health Administration at the UW, Dr. Walker served as Chief Medical Officer for the UW Medical Center from 2002-2008, focusing on energetic and relationship-centered leadership for a broad based, diverse medical staff. He transformed quality structures for the hospital by promoting high-performing partnerships between physicians, nurses, and administrators. He is a nationally recognized leader in the development of innovative physician leadership education methods which have increased physician performance and effectiveness.

Dr. Walker is a faculty member in the American College of Physician Executives, where he regularly teaches courses in Basic Quality, Advanced Quality, and Coaching and Mentoring. He is the Director of the University of Washington Certificate in Medical Management and a board member of the WA Physicians Health Program.

In addition to maintaining his clinical practice, Dr. Walker is a core faculty member of the UW Master of Health Administration program. His principal community outreach occurs through the Healthcare Leadership Development Alliance, an interdisciplinary research and training center designed to utilize evidence-based leadership development concepts in the ongoing professional development of senior executives and physician leaders. His previous academic research focus has been integration of mental health into primary and specialty care medical settings and the correlation of childhood maltreatment with medically unexplained physical symptoms in adulthood.

Diane Powers manages the AIMS Center. Ms. Powers has nearly twenty years experience managing a wide range of public health and health services research projects and programs. She also has more than eight years experience providing mental health services in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Ms. Powers received her bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University and a master’s degree in Psychology from Seattle University.

Jürgen Unützer is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and health services researcher. His work focuses on innovative models that integrate mental health and general medical services and on translating research on evidence-based behavioral health interventions into effective clinical and public health practice. He has over 200 scientific publications and is the recipient of numerous federal and foundation grants and awards for his research to improve the health and mental health of populations through patient-centered integrated mental health services.

Dr. Unützer is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Chief of Psychiatric Services at the UW Medical Center. He also holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Health Services at the UW School of Public Health and Affiliate Investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, WA.

Dr. Unützer directs the AIMS Center and the IMPACT Program which has supported national and international testing and implementation of an evidence-based program for depression care. IMPACT has been shown in randomized controlled trials to double the effectiveness of usual care for depression while lowering long-term health care costs. In recent years, Dr. Unützer’s work has focused on developing and supporting local, regional, and state-wide partnerships that improve access to evidence-based care through workforce development and capacity building in primary and behavioral health care (MHIP).

Dr. Unützer has served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the World Health Organization and as an advisor to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He works with national and international organizations dedicated to improving behavioral health care for diverse populations. His awards include the Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars Award in Aging Research from the American Foundation for Aging Research, the Klerman Junior Investigator Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the Research Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Oken Fellowship from the American Psychosomatic Society.

Dr. Unützer trained in Public Policy (MA, University of Chicago), Medicine (MD, Vanderbilt University) and Public Health (MPH, University of Washington). He completed fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA and in Primary Care Psychiatry / Health Services Research at the University of Washington

Douglas Zatzick is Associate Director for Research of the AIMS Center. He is also Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at the University of Washington and a member of the Core Research Faculty at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. Dr. Zatzick's intervention studies target post-traumatic symptom reduction (i.e. post-traumatic stress disorder and depression) and the modification of high risk behaviors that risk recurrent injury, such as alcohol and drug abuse/dependence. Dr. Zatzick is currently the principal investigator on a study that is delivering early combined interventions targeting PTSD and alcohol use to injured trauma survivors treated in acute care medical settings.

Wayne Katon is Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Health Services and Epidemiology, and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington Medical School. He is Director of a NIMH-funded National Research Service Award Primary Care Fellowship that has successfully trained psychiatrists and primary care physicians for academic leadership positions. Dr. Katon is internationally renowned for his research on the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care, the relationship of psychiatric disorders to medically unexplained symptoms such as headache and fatigue, and the impact of depression and anxiety on patients with chronic medical illness. In recent years, his research has focused on developing innovative models of integrating mental health professionals and other allied health personnel into primary care to improve the care of patients with major depression and panic disorder. Dr. Katon has been awarded the American Academy of Family Practice Award for Excellence in Teaching in Primary Care numerous times. He also has been awarded the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Research Award (1993) and the American Psychiatric Association Senior Scholar Health Services Research Award (1999).  He is Editor-in-Chief of General Hospital Psychiatry. Dr. Katon has written over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, as well as Panic Disorder in the Medical Setting, a book for primary care physicians. In addition, Dr. Katon and his research team have written a self-help book for depressed patients titled Depression: Self-Care Companion for Better Living.

Richard Veith is a Seattle native who has spent his entire academic career at the University of Washington School of Medicine.  He received his MD in 1973, which was followed by an Internal Medicine Internship and Psychiatry.  In 1977 he joined the faculty of the UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and was based at the Seattle VA Medical Center.  He became Director, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center in 1987 at the Seattle/American Lake VA and was appointed UW Professor in 1989.  He moved to the University of Washington Medical Center when he was appointed Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in 1998.  In 2003, he was appointed President, UW Medicine Physicians, the UW School of Medicine clinical practice plan.  Dr. Veith has conducted extensive research on the treatment of depression in patients with heart disease and has published more than 135 scientific publications.  He is currently participating in a project focused on the treatment of depression following stroke.  He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry and is listed in America’s Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America.  He was the 2005 American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Robert Cancro Academic Leadership Award: Best Chair.

Patricia Areán is a Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and a licensed Clinical Psychologist. Her research focuses on the recognition and treatment of mental disorders in older adults and minority populations, particularly in recognition and treatment of depression that is identified in non-mental health settings. She is currently Director of the geriatric psychotherapy clinic at UCSF. Dr. Areán has published several articles on the recognition and treatment of late life depression and anxiety, as well as methods for recruiting and retaining older, minority elderly into longitudinal research. She has been funded by several agencies, including SAMHSA, NIMH, NIA, and the Hartford Foundation. She was a psychotherapy expert for the IMPACT study, a multi-site trial of stepped care for depression in older primary care patients. She is currently funded by SAMHSA to study a mental health consultation model for treating depression and agitation in older adults living in residential facilities. She is also funded by NIMH to study the efficacy of Problem Solving Therapy and Supportive Therapy in treating depression in older adults with mild cognitive impairments. She is the Director of the NIMH-funded CARTA fellowship, a program to bring academic and community partners together to conduct research and training, and is a Mid-Career Awardee from NIMH. Dr. Areán has been very active in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and was among the first to receive affiliate status. She is a member of the AAGP diversity committee, and the program committee and served on the editorial board of American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Jim Basinski is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He currently works on the inpatient and consult-liasion psychiatry services of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.  He also is a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP). Dr. Basinski completed medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and Residency Training in Psychiatry at the University of Washington, where he wa Chief Resident of INpatient Psychiatry at Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Basinski has a wide range of professional interests including psychiatry education, psychotherapy, and consult-liasion psychiatry.

Wayne Bentham completed his undergraduate degree in psychology / neurosciences at Princeton University and medical school at Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Bentham completed internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital. While at Georgetown University, he was awarded a HRSA Fellowship and obtained a Master’s degree from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. His public policy focus was health care economics and health services and he served as a fellow at the Clinical Economics Research Unit in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University. Based upon his health services research interests there, Dr. Bentham went on to complete additional residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Washington Medical Center. Dr. Bentham’s clinical interests are general adult psychiatry and consultation / liaison psychiatry with particular focus on patients who have complex medical illnesses.

Lorin Boynton completed her medical degree in Cape Town, South Africa. She did an internship in Johannesburg, then worked in London for 3 years. She came to UW in 1995 for psychiatry residency. After completion of this, she joined the UW faculty at Harborview Medical Center. She has worked as the consultant psychiatrist in the Refugee and Immigrant Clinic and the Psychiatric Emergency Services Department at HMC for 10 years. Dr. Boynton's clinical interests are cultural psychiatry, integrative health in psychiatry and consultation/liaison psychiatry.

Eric Bruns is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy, University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Bruns spends most of his time researching the impact of community-based services and supports for children with complex needs, and asking how we can make these services better. Much of his research has focused on developing the wraparound process, a widely-implemented care coordination model for children and youth with complex mental health needs. He is also recognized for his research on school mental health services, services for youth in foster care, and family peer-to-peer support services.

Dr. Bruns directs the National Wraparound Initiative, as well as the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team, which develops and disseminates fidelity measures for the wraparound process. He currently is the lead evaluator of Washington State’s federally-funded Mental Health Transformation Grant. Dr. Bruns is the Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental Health at the University of South Florida and with Eric Trupin, Ph.D., he serves as Editor of the journal Report on Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Youth. He has served as Principal Investigator for several NIMH-funded studies in children’s mental health and authored over 30 refereed journal articles and book chapters.

Ya-Fen Chan is a Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on psychiatric comorbidity and health services. She has been actively involved in addiction and behavioral research over the past decade. She completed her doctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology and a masters degree in biostatistics.

Paul Ciechanowski is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington where he is the Medical Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Program Director of a fellowship program in Psychosomatic Medicine. He has been involved with a number of randomized controlled trials and collaborative care programs for improving care for depression such as the IMPACT Study and the Pathways Study. He was a primary clinical investigator on the PEARLS Study – a community-integrated home-based treatment of depression in frail elderly – and has continued to be involved in the dissemination of the PEARLS program in Washington State. Dr. Ciechanowski has been a psychiatric member of the treatment team at UWMC’s Diabetes Care Center since 1997 and also conducts research in diabetes and mental health. He currently is funded through the National Institutes of Health to study the patient-provider relationship and its association with health outcomes. In this research, he has incorporated attachment theoretical principles as a model for understanding and working with clinical interpersonal interactions.

Dr. Ciechanowski received his medical degree from McGill University in Montréal, Canada and his Master of Public Health in Health Services from the University of Washington. Prior to completing a residency in psychiatry at the University of Washington, Dr. Ciechanowski was trained in Family Medicine through the University of British Columbia and worked in the community as a board-certified family physician. He has also completed a fellowship in Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Washington.

David Harrison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He currently works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP), a statewide program for improving mental health care in the primary care setting, as an attending psychiatrist on the UW Medical Center consult-liaison and inpatient psychiatry services, and as course chair of the first year medical student course on behavior medicine called Systems of Human Behavior. Dr. Harrison’s professional interests also involve improving the integration of spiritual care and complementary and alternative medicine into psychiatry.

Dr. Harrison received his MD and PhD (in nutrition) from the University of California at Davis. He attended residency in psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and during his last two years of residency directed OHSU’s Integrative Medicine Consult Clinic. After residency, Dr. Harrison completed a fellowship in Consult-Liaison psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Harrison has also received training as a massage therapist, medical acupuncturist, chaplain, and Yoga instructor.

Mark Hegel is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Hegel specializes in treating depression in medical patients and has published widely in this area. He has refined a Problem Solving Treatment model for depression in medical and community settings and co-authored a Problem Solving Treatment Manual widely used for research and clinical practice. In addition to his own clinical practice and research program, Dr. Hegel spends much of his time disseminating Problem Solving Treatment to organizations, clinicians, and researchers throughout the US and internationally.

Robert Hilt is attending psychiatrist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His work focuses on consultation psychiatry with primary care and hospital physicians. His clinical and research interests include psychiatric systems of care, improving child psychiatric emergency services and developing and studying care systems for psychiatric consultation to primary care. His teaching interests include a variety of child psychiatric topics likely to be encountered by a referring clinician, and he has experience lecturing to medical students, residents and attending physicians in many areas. He is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and sits on its Committee on Collaboration with Medical Professions. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has experience working as a practicing pediatrician. He is a member of the Washington State Psychiatric Association where he has served on their executive board.  He was awarded membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and has received the AACAP Outstanding Child Psychiatric Resident Award. He is board certified in both adult and child psychiatry.

Anna Ratzliff is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Ratzliff received her MD/PhD in 2005 from the University of California, Irvine. She completed her doctoral work in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology where her research focused on mechanisms of epilepsy development following head injury. She completed her residency training in psychiatry and served as the Chief Resident at the University of Washington Medical Center. Dr. Ratzliff currently works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) and trains psychiatric residents at the University of Washington.  Her clinical expertise includes primary care consultation, women’s mental health and providing mental health care to underserved populations. Dr Ratzliff’s academic pursuits include developing strategies to provide mental health education to members of integrated care teams, and studying the impact of integrated mental health care programs in special populations.

Laura Richardson completed medical school and a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. She moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1998 to obtain further training in Adolescent Medicine and public health. After the completion of an Adolescent Medicine Fellowship, she joined the faculty in the Section of Adolescent Medicine at the University of Washington. She has special interests in depression and the interaction between mental and physical health in adolescents. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, cooking and spending time with her family.

Kari Stephens is a clinical psychologist and faculty member in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington with a long standing commitment to underserved populations. She is also part of the faculty leadership in the Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences and has over a decade of experience in biomedical health informatics with emphases on data sharing architectures and electronic medical record systems. She completed her doctorate in 2008 at the University of Washington after completing residency/internship through Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine. She has received fellowships and funding from the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program, Society for Public Health Education, and the National Institute of Mental Health. Her current research includes addressing mental health ethnoracial disparities related to posttraumatic stress, particularly in the acute care setting. She is also working within primary care settings to deliver behavioral skills training within Washington State’s Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) and leads the informatics system development for LC Data QUEST, a project aimed at building data sharing networks across primary care practices serving rural communities. Integrating her expertise in informatics, she continues to explore the use of informatics innovations in medical settings to promote dissemination of empirically supported mental health treatments. Her clinical expertise includes cognitive and behavioral based psychotherapy, including treatments for depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction.

Mark Sullivan received his M.D. and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. After completing an internship in Family Medicine at University of Missouri, he completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington in 1988. Since then he has attended in the Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic and on the Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington. His research is focused on quality of life in chronic disease, especially heart disease and chronic pain. Special interests include decision making and clinical care at the end of life. He is currently chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Pain Society.

Stephen Thielke is an Acting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington, and an investigator at the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center of the Puget Sound VA Health Care System. He grew up in Seattle, and attended the University of Washington for medical school, residency in psychiatry, fellowship in geriatric psychiatry, and a fellowship in Geriatric Mental Health Services Research. He worked as a consulting psychiatrist for MHIP (a broad community implementation of IMPACT) before starting at the VA.  He conducts research about various topics, including the treatment of mental health conditions in primary care, the effects of pain on the lives and health of older adults, population modeling of depression and illness, and technological interventions to sustain independence. He enjoys spending time with his family, and tearing down things in his house well in advance of fixing them up.

Steven Vannoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Vannoy has received clinical training and conducted outcome research in a wide range of psychotherapy modalities.  These modalities include cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, group-based psychotherapy, family therapy for post partum depression, and problem solving therapy in primary care. Dr. Vannoy’s current research interests focus on delivery of effective prevention and treatment of depression and suicide in late-life in community settings.

Dr. Vannoy received his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and performed his internship in the Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy program at the University of Washington.

Laurie Alexander is a behavioral healthcare consultant specializing in integrated health care. Prior to consulting, she was a program officer at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health in Texas. In her five years there, she was responsible for the foundation’s integrated health care activities, including a demonstration grant program, policy activities, resource guide, and statewide conference. Before joining the foundation in 2004, Laurie worked in mental health advocacy and completed postdoctoral training in public health and traumatic stress. She has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.A. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

Benjamin Druss is working to build linkages between mental health, general medical health, and public health as the first Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health at Emory University.  He works closely with Carter Center Mental Health Program, where he is a member of the Mental Health Task Force and Journalism Task Force.  Dr. Druss’s research focuses on improving physical health and healthcare among persons with serious mental disorders.  He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on this and related topics, including the first randomized trial of an intervention to improve medical care in this population in 2001.  His research is funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, and he serves as a standing member of an NIMH study section.  He has received a number of national awards for his work, including the American Psychiatric Association Early Career Health Services Research Award, the AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year Award, and the AcademyHealth Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award.

Henry Harbin is a Psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience in the behavioral health field. He has held a number of senior positions in both public and private health care organizations. He worked for 10 years in the public mental health system in Maryland serving as Director of the state mental health authority for 3 of those years. He has been CEO of two national behavioral healthcare companies – Greenspring Health Services and Magellan Health Services.  At the time he was CEO of Magellan it was the largest managed behavioral healthcare company managing the mental health and substance abuse benefits of approximately 70 million Americans including persons who were insured by private employers, Medicaid and Medicare. In  2002 and 2003 he served on the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. As a part of the Commission he was chair of the subcommittee for the Interface between Mental Health and General Medicine. In 2005 he served as co-chair of the National Business Group on Health’s work group that produced the Employer’s Guide to Behavioral Health Services in Dec 2005. Since 2004, Dr Harbin has been providing health care consulting services to a number of private and public organizations.

Barbara Mauer has twenty years of consulting experience focused on strategic planning, program design, performance management and quality management processes. She is a co-author of How to Thrive in Managed Behavioral Healthcare and The Primary Care Performance Management System as well as articles discussing organizational design, performance management, public health performance standards and the integration of primary care and behavioral healthcare.

She is nationally active in writing, training and consulting on ways to better integrate primary healthcare services with mental health and substance abuse services, serving as the senior consultant for the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare on this subject. She has been the project manager for the Council’s Primary Care-Mental Health Learning Collaborative, with 16 site teams, each comprised of a mental health center and a federally qualified health center.

Prior to her consulting practice, Ms. Mauer was a senior administrator at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and headed the public mental health/substance abuse/developmental disabilities system for King County, serving the greater Seattle area. Ms. Mauer is now retired.

Michael Schoenbaum is Senior Advisor for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology, and Economics [C], Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Schoenbaum’s broad interests include health and labor economics, economic development, and economic demography. He has conducted analyses of the Palestinian health system to identify policy options for improving clinical performance and economic viability; and analyses for several national trials to improve care for depression.

Ed Wagner is Director of Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC), a general internist/epidemiologist, and director of the Seattle-based MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation at the Group Health Research Institute of Group Health Cooperative. His current research interests include the development and testing of population-based care models for diabetes, frailty in the elderly and other chronic illnesses; the evaluation of the health and cost impacts of health promotion/disease prevention interventions; and interventions to prevent disability and reduce depressive symptoms in older adults. He has written two books, authored more than 200 publications, and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Wagner is the 2011 recipient of the William B. Graham prize for health services research. The prize, funded by the Baxter International Foundation and managed by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, is the highest distinction that can be achieved by researchers who study delivery of health services.

Jordan Lewis is a research associate with the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology, where he is a co-principle investigator on an NSF grant exploring the Strengths, Roles, and Needs of Alaska Native grandparents. Dr. Lewis was an Assistant Professor with the UAF Alaska Native Studies Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he taught the Cultural Knowledge of Native Elders, mentoring students and is still assisting with the new Indigenous Studies doctoral program, as well as continuing his community health in Bristol Bay, and statewide. He has been involved with numerous professional conferences and organizations where he has presented his dissertation research and continues to engage in community health research with Indigenous elders. Dr. Lewis received his doctoral degree in Cross-Cultural Community Psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), where he did his research with Alaska Native elders in Bristol Bay (SW) Alaska to establish an Alaska Native model of successful aging. His research interests include rural community health, Indigenous gerontology, circumpolar health issues, and cross-cultural health care.

Mijung Park is a postdoctoral fellow in the Geriatric Mental Health Services Research Training. She graduated with a PhD in Nursing from UCSF. Her areas of research focus on improving mental health services for culturally and economically diverse populations. Dr. Park's research has been focused on examining how family contexts, such as informal care and family conflict, associated with mental health outcome and how a patients (his or her family) interact with mental health care services. From her research findings, she learned that more explicit inclusion and systematic engagement of family members could improve the management and outcomes of mental illnesses, such as depression. Building on her strong background in qualitative and family research, her current training focuses on developing a family-centered care model for depressed older adults. As a psychiatric nurse, she had worked with mainly underserved patients in various health care settings, including inpatient psychiatric unit, Psychiatric Emergency Services, and residential services for adolescents.

Diane Powers manages the AIMS Center. Ms. Powers has nearly twenty years experience managing a wide range of public health and health services research projects and programs. She also has more than eight years experience providing mental health services in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Ms. Powers received her bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University and a master’s degree in Psychology from Seattle University.

Pam Collins is responsible for the financial and administrative management of the AIMS Center. She has worked in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington for over 9 years.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Louisiana State University.

Kitty Christensen manages the IMPACT Implementation Center at the University of Washington. Her role includes working with organizations interested in implementing IMPACT, coordinating in-person training sessions, and managing all IMPACT website content and materials. Ms. Christensen has over 11 years of project management experience in public health and health services research settings. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Business Administration from Central Washington University, and her MPH in Health Services from the University of Washington.

Julie Cooper is a Senior Project Manager at the AIMS Center where she currently provides project management for the Washington State MHIP (Mental Health Integration Program) and national STEPS-UP (Stepped Enhancement of PTSD Services Using Primary Care) projects. Prior to joining the AIMS Center, Julie was Project Manager and Policy Analyst at the University of Washington’s Child Health Institute, and worked simultaneously on multiple projects related to childhood obesity prevention and intervention, and asthma education and intervention: the Washington State Collaborative to Improve Health, the Childhood Obesity Action Network of the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), and the Interactive Medical Training Resources (iMTR) Spirometry 360™ Pilot program. During and following graduate school, Julie worked for 8 years as Research Manager for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national Urban Health Initiative – a 10-year effort to create system-wide changes to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families in specific cities across the US.

Julie received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and a MPA from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs.

Suzy Hunter joined the AIMS Center in October 2011 as Technical Project Manager, providing project management support for the web-based Care Management Tracking System (CMTS) software. She has enjoyed working at the University of Washington doing web application development and IT project management since 2006. Ms. Hunter received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design from Washington State University.

Andrea Panniero supports various aspects of the AIMS Center's activities, maintains and updates the content of the AIMS Center's websites and coordinates training and technical assistance sessions. She has almost 6 years of experience in health sciences research at the University of Washington, specifically on projects related to geriatric oral health and oral health promotion for at-risk populations. Ms. Panniero earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Washington.

Lindsay Bell supports various aspects of the AIMS Center's activities and coordinates the Research Meeting. She is the IMPACT program assistant and manages the George implementation project with medical clinics in Houston, TX as well as the CareOregon project in Oregon. Lindsay helps update the AIMS Center's websites and assists with the development and maintenance of research and dissemination materials. She has three years of experience in psychology and public health research at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Ms. Bell earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Washington.

Youlim Choi developed the web-based care management system (CMTS) for the original multi-site IMPACT study and since then has developed several subsequent versions of the registry tool to facilitate various research projects and large-scale IMPACT implementations. Mr. Choi maintains the AIMS Center websites and CMTS. He has over 10 years of experience in information technology including network, security, and programming. He received his Master of Arts degree in Mathematics from UCLA.

JJ (Jean-Jacques) Brun supports maintenance and development of the websites and CMTS. He has two years experience as a software engineer with a background in desktop application programming and database development. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University.

Rita Haverkamp is a psychiatric nurse clinical specialist. She has her masters’ degree in psychiatric nursing from the University of Cincinnati. She has been ANA certified as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse/ clinical specialist since 1985..  She has worked for Kaiser Permanente for the last 21 years as an outpatient therapist. She has previous experience as an inpatient head nurse and a manager for multiple psychiatric units. She was a depression specialist in the original IMPACT depression care research. The last 11 years she has been providing IMPACT depression care within her role at Kaiser. She currently does consulting with the IMPACT Implementation Center. She is a frequent speaker presenting on the IMPACT model, problem solving treatment and cognitive therapy. She provides PST-PC supervision to depression care managers.

Lori Higa is a home health and hospice nurse for Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.  She received her Bachelor’s in nursing from Seattle University.  She started community mental health nursing, 14 years ago, working with deaf mentally ill adolescents and adults, adjudicated youth, and school-based mental health programs at Seattle Mental Health.  In a slight detour, she coordinated a wound healing study looking at effectiveness of radiant heat to treat deep pressure ulcers at the University of Washington Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems.  She has worked as a care manager providing behavioral activation and problem-solving therapy for three different research studies following the original IMPACT study.  Those studies were Pathways, a research study treating diabetic patients with depression, and the CARE study, providing education and treatment options for adolescents with depression, and the IMPACT-DP pilot study, treating older patients with arthritis pain and depression.  She uses behavioral activation techniques through an obsessive-compulsive relationship to playing beach volleyball.

Virna Little is responsible for the administration and delivery of behavioral health, community and grant funded programs in twenty six centers throughout New York City and New York State's Hudson Valley Region. Ms. Little is also responsible for many of the services the organization provides to the uninsured and the federal 340b pharmacy program. Ms. Little has extensive experience providing behavioral health services in healthcare settings as well as developing and operating community programs. Ms. Little has knowledge of special populations such as HIV/AIDS, homeless and substance abuse and the chronically medically and mentally ill. Ms. Little has her doctoral degree in psychology along with a master's in social work and bachelor's degree in both psychology and social work. Ms. Little has been recognized nationally for her work in the integration of primary care and behavioral health, including the implementation of evidence-based models such as IMPACT.

Rachel Quintanilla received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Texas at El Paso and Masters in Social Work from New Mexico State University.  She is currently the Care Manager for Project Vida Health Center in collaboration with Family Service of El Paso and EPMHMR and is a consultant with the IMPACT Implementation Center.  Rachel formerly worked with Family Service of El Paso as a psychotherapist, conducting psychosocial assessments for CPS involved families and providing therapy to individuals, couples, families, and children, most of which were crime victims. Because of her extensive experience with families under stress, she has been called on to provide crisis intervention, critical incident debriefing, and grief counseling within her local community and was sent to Northern Virginia to work with “Project Resilience” after the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. Rachel continues her involvement in doing community awareness and education on social issues that threaten the well-being of individuals and families in her community.

Carol Saur is a Certified Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and a Clinical Associate in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. Carol was the IMPACT Care Manager for Duke General Internal Medicine, an academic group practice, where she continues to provide collaborative care mental health services, based on the IMPACT model.

Jim Basinski is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He currently works on the inpatient and consult-liasion psychiatry services of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.  He also is a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP). Dr. Basinski completed medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and Residency Training in Psychiatry at the University of Washington, where he wa Chief Resident of INpatient Psychiatry at Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Basinski has a wide range of professional interests including psychiatry education, psychotherapy, and consult-liasion psychiatry.

Amy Bauer, MD, MS is a research fellow in Primary Care Psychiatry and Acting Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on improving mental health service delivery in medical settings, with an emphasis on services for multicultural patients. She has studied the effects of limited English proficiency on mental health care access and quality. She completed residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, a clinical fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and a research fellowship in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

Wayne Bentham completed his undergraduate degree in psychology / neurosciences at Princeton University and medical school at Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Bentham completed internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital. While at Georgetown University, he was awarded a HRSA Fellowship and obtained a Master’s degree from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. His public policy focus was health care economics and health services and he served as a fellow at the Clinical Economics Research Unit in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University. Based upon his health services research interests there, Dr. Bentham went on to complete additional residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Washington Medical Center. Dr. Bentham’s clinical interests are general adult psychiatry and consultation / liaison psychiatry with particular focus on patients who have complex medical illnesses.

Shane Coleman is an Acting Instructor and Senior Fellow at the University of Washington Medical Center. Shane completed his medical training here at the University of Washington as a member of the Alaska WWAMI class of 2007 and went on to complete his adult psychiatric residential training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2011. During residency, Shane cultivated an interest in underserved populations serving as the chief resident of community psychiatry and participating in research examining collaborative depression care in HIV positive populations. He returned to UWMC in 2011 under a Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award sponsored by Dr. Wayne Katon and is currently pursing research in the area of collaborative depression care while consulting in MHIP and obtaining an MPH degree.

David Folsom is the Medical Director of St. Vincent de Paul Village Family Health Center, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is also Co-Director of the UCSD Combined Family Medicine Psychiatry Residency Training Program.  Dr. Folsom’s research focuses on improving care for people who are homeless and mentally ill, and on improving medical care for people with schizophrenia. His research is funded by an NIMH Career Development Award. Dr. Folsom has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is board certified in both Psychiatry and Family Medicine. He has served on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and was awarded the Family Medicine Researcher of the Year award by the California Academy of Family Physicians in 2007.  Dr. Folsom provides clinical care to people who are homeless, working at the St. Vincent de Paul Village free medical clinic in downtown San Diego.

David Harrison is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He currently works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP), a statewide program for improving mental health care in the primary care setting, and also works as an attending psychiatrist on the UW Medical Center consult-liaison and inpatient psychiatry services. In his capacity as an MHIP consulting psychiatrist, Dr. Harrison has developed a wide variety of educational materials and presentations for care coordinators and primary care providers, and has been intimately involved in quality improvement initiatives.

Dr. Harrison has a deep and abiding interest in improving the integration of spiritual care into health care and to this end participated in chaplaincy training during his fellowship in consult‐liaison psychiatry at the University of Washington and worked as a Templeton Foundation visiting scholar at the HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York from September 2008 through January 2010. At the HealthCare Chaplaincy, Dr. Harrison developed a comprehensive mental health curriculum for chaplains to better educate chaplains and other spiritual care providers about common psychiatric problems encountered in the hospital and hospice settings. Dr. Harrison is currently involved in quality improvement/research projects at the University of Washington examining the impact of religious distress/struggle on patient outcomes in inpatient psychiatry patients and general oncology outpatients.

Dr. Harrison received his MD and PhD (in nutrition) from the University of California at Davis. He completed a residency in psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University and a fellowship in consult-liaison psychiatry at  the University of Washington. Dr. Harrison has also been trained as a medical acupuncturist, massage therapist, and Yoga instructor.

Catherine Howe is a Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP), and at the Center for Pain Relief at UWMC.  She also has a private practice in Seattle. She received her MD from Peking Union Medical College and PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University. She then completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington. Her professional interests include the psychosomatic aspect of disease processes and the application of psychoanalytic understanding to diagnosis and treatment in non-psychoanalytic settings.

Hsiang Huang is an Acting Instructor and Senior Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Huang’s professional interests include cultural psychiatry, substance use disorders, and integrated mental health care for multicultural populations in primary care settings. He is currently a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) and an attending psychiatrist on the University of Washington Medical Center psychiatry consultation service. Dr. Huang attended psychiatry residency at Boston University Medical Center and completed his fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.

Anna Ratzliff is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Ratzliff received her MD/PhD in 2005 from the University of California, Irvine. She completed her doctoral work in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology where her research focused on mechanisms of epilepsy development following head injury. She completed her residency training in psychiatry and served as the Chief Resident at the University of Washington Medical Center. Dr. Ratzliff currently works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) and trains psychiatric residents at the University of Washington.  Her clinical expertise includes primary care consultation, women’s mental health and providing mental health care to underserved populations. Dr Ratzliff’s academic pursuits include developing strategies to provide mental health education to members of integrated care teams, and studying the impact of integrated mental health care programs in special populations.

Jennifer Sexton is an Acting Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She currently works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) and also sees patients for psychiatric consultation at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Dr. Sexton’s professional interests include psycho-oncology, dialectical behavior therapy, and medication management.

Nida Sieu is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her MD and attended residency in psychiatry at the University of Montreal. After her residency, Dr. Sieu received a MPH from the University of Washington where she is currently completing a Psychiatry-Primary Care fellowship. Her professional interests are collaborative care and health services research.

Stephen Thielke is an Acting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington, and an investigator at the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center of the Puget Sound VA Health Care System. He grew up in Seattle, and attended the University of Washington for medical school, residency in psychiatry, fellowship in geriatric psychiatry, and a fellowship in Geriatric Mental Health Services Research. He worked as a consulting psychiatrist for MHIP (a broad community implementation of IMPACT) before starting at the VA.  He conducts research about various topics, including the treatment of mental health conditions in primary care, the effects of pain on the lives and health of older adults, population modeling of depression and illness, and technological interventions to sustain independence. He enjoys spending time with his family, and tearing down things in his house well in advance of fixing them up.

Eric Turner is a Professor of Psychiatry at the UW and Professor at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Center for Integrative Brain Research (CIBR). His primary clinical interests are schizophrenia and developmental disorders. Dr. Turner is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Washington Medical Scientist Training (MD-PhD) program. He completed his psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Diego and his research training at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 1994-2009, he was on the faculty of UCSD and a Staff Psychiatrist of the San Diego VA Medical Center, specializing in severe mental illness. From 2003 to 2009, he was Medical Director of the San Diego VA Mental Health Intensive Case Management Program. Dr. Turner has been the recipient of the NARSAD Young Investigator Award (twice), and NARSAD Established Investigator Award, and has also received many NIH and VA grants for his research in developmental neuroscience and neural gene regulation, which is ongoing at SCRI. He is a fifth-generation Seattle native and is very enthusiastic about being back in Seattle and back at the “U-dub”.

Patricia Areán is a Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and a licensed Clinical Psychologist. Her research focuses on the recognition and treatment of mental disorders in older adults and minority populations, particularly in recognition and treatment of depression that is identified in non-mental health settings. She is currently Director of the geriatric psychotherapy clinic at UCSF. Dr. Areán has published several articles on the recognition and treatment of late life depression and anxiety, as well as methods for recruiting and retaining older, minority elderly into longitudinal research. She has been funded by several agencies, including SAMHSA, NIMH, NIA, and the Hartford Foundation. She was a psychotherapy expert for the IMPACT study, a multi-site trial of stepped care for depression in older primary care patients. She is currently funded by SAMHSA to study a mental health consultation model for treating depression and agitation in older adults living in residential facilities. She is also funded by NIMH to study the efficacy of Problem Solving Therapy and Supportive Therapy in treating depression in older adults with mild cognitive impairments. She is the Director of the NIMH-funded CARTA fellowship, a program to bring academic and community partners together to conduct research and training, and is a Mid-Career Awardee from NIMH. Dr. Areán has been very active in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and was among the first to receive affiliate status. She is a member of the AAGP diversity committee, and the program committee and served on the editorial board of American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Rita Haverkamp is a psychiatric nurse clinical specialist. She has her masters’ degree in psychiatric nursing from the University of Cincinnati. She has been ANA certified as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse/ clinical specialist since 1985..  She has worked for Kaiser Permanente for the last 21 years as an outpatient therapist. She has previous experience as an inpatient head nurse and a manager for multiple psychiatric units. She was a depression specialist in the original IMPACT depression care research. The last 11 years she has been providing IMPACT depression care within her role at Kaiser. She currently does consulting with the IMPACT Implementation Center. She is a frequent speaker presenting on the IMPACT model, problem solving treatment and cognitive therapy. She provides PST-PC supervision to depression care managers.

Mark Hegel is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Hegel specializes in treating depression in medical patients and has published widely in this area. He has refined a Problem Solving Treatment model for depression in medical and community settings and co-authored a Problem Solving Treatment Manual widely used for research and clinical practice. In addition to his own clinical practice and research program, Dr. Hegel spends much of his time disseminating Problem Solving Treatment to organizations, clinicians, and researchers throughout the US and internationally.

Steven Vannoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Vannoy has received clinical training and conducted outcome research in a wide range of psychotherapy modalities.  These modalities include cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, group-based psychotherapy, family therapy for post partum depression, and problem solving therapy in primary care. Dr. Vannoy’s current research interests focus on delivery of effective prevention and treatment of depression and suicide in late-life in community settings.

Dr. Vannoy received his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and performed his internship in the Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy program at the University of Washington.