Kirsten Salmela is a psychiatrist, acting instructor, and the current population mental health and integrated care fellow at UW. She is board certified in both adult and child-and-adolescent psychiatry. Her clinical and research interests include working with primary care physicians through an integrated care model and working with intergenerational family systems including perinatal and infant/early childhood populations. She has completed research, lectures, and publications regarding how to best support parents during the transition to parenthood and how to expand the infant/early childhood mental health workforce. She also is interested in quality improvement initiatives to continually better our healthcare system and increase mental healthcare access and equity.
Education:
- Population Mental Health and Integrated Care Fellowship, University of Washington, 2024-2025
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, Seattle Children’s Hospital/University of Washington, 2022-2024
- Adult Psychiatry Residency, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, 2019-2022
- Medical School (MD), Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, 2015-2019