Matt Iles-Shih is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington (UW). He is board certified in psychiatry and addiction psychiatry and specializes in the treatment of co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders (SUD) in outpatient and acute care settings. This includes working on an inpatient addiction consult service, in a community mental health center’s addiction clinic, and as a consulting psychiatrist embedded in an HIV clinic and cancer center. From time to time, he makes an effort to contribute to research and applied projects that focus on SUD treatment strategies and novel integrated care efforts.
Staff Type: Faculty
Erin Dillon-Naftolin, MD
Erin Dillon-Naftolin, MD attended medical school at the University of Washington and completed her psychiatric residency at the UW as well. She spent much of her time as a resident working at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she went on to complete the UW fellowship in child psychiatry. She joined the faculty in 2014 and is currently working at Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, in the UW Roosevelt outpatient clinic through the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) model and on the Partnership Access Line. She also provides consultation through telepsychiatry in Vancouver, WA through Family Solutions community mental health organization. The work that keeps her going is her interactions with families. She loves getting to know patients and families and being a long-term provider. One of the things about Collaborative Care that she enjoys is having those long-term relationships with teams as well.
Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA
Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA 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 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. He is a professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Chair of the department.
Jessica Whitfield, MD, MPH
Jessica Whitfield, MD, MPH, serves as an Acting Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is a psychiatric consultant for the UW’s Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) and the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic at the UW Medical Center. She also is a co-director of the Psychiatric Consultant Learning Collaborative and provides program assistance for the Integrated Care Training Program Fellowship as a clinical supervisor and co-coordinator for the implementation, quality improvement, and collaborative care rotations. She received her medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and her Masters of Public Health from Columbia University. She completed her residency in General Adult Psychiatry at Brown University as well as the Integrated Care Training Program Fellowship at UW.
Kari Stephens, PhD
Kari Stephens, PhD is a licensedclinical psychologist, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She earned her PhD at UW. Her work focuses on dissemination of evidence-based behavioral practices (EBPs) integrated behavioral health primary care care settings through research, training, and data science methods. She believes primary care provides a way to reach the vast majority of people and that EBPs can have huge population impact if we can successfully disseminate them. Her clinical expertise includes treating trauma, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and addiction. Dr. Stephens is a panelist for the UW PACC weekly case consultation series, leads the Integrated Primary Care Track for the Psychology Internship Program, and conducts research spanning the use of electronic health data and integrated behavioral health to improve care particularly in disadvantaged populations.
Megan Riddle, MD, PhD, MS
Megan Riddle, MD, PhD, MS, serves as the Medical Director for both the ERC Pathlight centers in Bellevue and Seattle, Washington where she leads comprehensive treatment teams in the care of individuals with eating disorders. She is Board Certified in both Adult Psychiatry and Consult Liaison Psychiatry. Dr. Riddle earned her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, with minors in Latin and English, from Western Washington University before shifting her focus to medicine and research. She later completed a Master’s in Biology at the same institution, emphasizing genetics, before attending Weill Cornell Medical College, where she received her Medical Degree and a PhD in Neuroscience.
Dr. Riddle completed her residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Washington, where she served as Chief Resident, and subsequently pursued a fellowship in Consult Liaison Psychiatry. She is also a Courtesy Clinical Instructor with the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she enjoys teaching and supervising residents.
With a longstanding passion for eating disorders, Dr. Riddle’s PhD thesis investigated the effects of dietary restriction on anxiety-like behavior, contributing to our understanding of the neuroscience behind eating disorders. During her residency, she developed an eating disorder curriculum that she now teaches to residents, fellows, medical students, and attending physicians, aiming to enhance provider awareness and improve patient access to treatment. Dr. Riddle is particularly committed to increasing inclusivity in eating disorder research and treatment and has published several articles on gender diversity in this field.
Outside of her professional pursuits, Dr. Riddle enjoys training and showing her German Shepherds in various sports and spending quality time with her wife.
Lindsey Enoch, MD
Lindsey Enoch, MD graduated with a Bachelor of Science from James Madison Universityand received her MD from Saint Louis University. She completed a combined residency in internal medicine and psychiatry at UC Davis. During her final year of residency, she spent time as chief resident, and also worked with a Collaborative Care team doing consultation for primary care.
Because of her training in both internal medicine and psychiatry, Dr. Enoch has unique experiences providing both medical and mental health care in non-traditional settings. Over the years, Dr. Enoch both provided care for and taught residents how to address psychiatric illness in the primary care setting. She has also written on the topics of teaching primary care providers supportive therapy and teaching psychiatrists how to screen and treat metabolic syndrome.
Dr. Enoch has been dually appointed in the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and of Internal Medicine and is doing Collaborative Care at 3 different clinics, as well as some telepsychiatry and primary care. She feels her most important work has been centered on teaching, and one of her main interests is developing curriculum to help psychiatrists provide medical care to their patients. Five years from now, she believes that Collaborative Care will rely on both psychiatrists and primary care doctors’ ability to provide comprehensive care.
David Kopacz, MD
David Kopacz, MD lectures in the didactic seminars for ICTP. He graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago for medical school and psychiatric residency. His first job was at Omaha VA and University of Nebraska, which was followed by work in a number of different practice settings, including private practice, rural community mental health, and multi-specialty group practice. Dr. Kopacz served as Clinical Director of Buchanan Psychiatric Rehabilitation Centre in Auckland, New Zealand for several years, prior to moving to Seattle. Since 2014, David has been at Seattle Division of Puget Sound VA working in Primary Care Mental Health Integration with an Acting Assistant Professor appointment in the Clinician Teacher track at University of Washington. Dr. Kopacz is board certified through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as well as the American Board of Integrative & Holistic Medicine and the newly formed American Board of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Kopacz published his first book in 2014, Re-humanizing Medicine: A Holistic Framework for Transforming Your Self, Your Practice, and the Culture of Medicine, and his next book, published in2016, isWalking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma & PTSD, with co-author Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow). He has always been interested in whole-person, holistic treatments and delivery systems, and Collaborative Care seemed like a logical extension of that work. Dr. Kopacz thinks that his most important work has been bringing creative, whole-person approaches to working with veterans and staff. He has helped start a Whole Health Class for veterans, which has been a great tool for engaging with Primary Care staff as well and has had some staff wellness applications. He believes that Collaborative Care looks to be a growing field, on its way to becoming mainstream psychiatry.
Richard Ries, MD
Richard K. Ries, MDis Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Addictions Division in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Director of the Addiction Treatment Services at Harborview Medical Center in downtown Seattle. Dr. Ries received his undergraduate degree from Stanford, medical degree from Northwestern Medical School and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Washington, where he was chief resident.
Dr. Ries is board-certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Added Qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry, and the American Board of Addiction Medicine.A Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, he is on the editorial board and a reviewer for several scientific journals and holds a number of research grants from the National Institute of Health. He has published numerous articles and abstracts on topics related to treatment of persons with severe mental illness, with special emphasis on those with co-existing problems with alcohol or drugs, and was the chair and co-chair of TIPS 9 and 42 on Treatment of Persons with Co-occurring Disorders published by the National Center of Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). He has active funded research in the areas above, military suicide intervention, addiction and suicide, PTSD, and addictions in Native American populations.He is senior editor of the key reference text Principles of Addiction Medicine (editions IV and V), published by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and a noted expert in the field of addictions.
Dr. Ries has worked collaboratively with various medical/surgical services at Harborview, and hopes that UW PACC can help primary care providers, especially those more rural-based, to feel and be better prepared to deal with their often difficult patients with mental and/or addictions disorders.
Barbara McCann, PhD
Barbara McCann, PhD received her PhD in clinical psychology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is a Professor in UW;s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as a clinical psychologist with expertise in hypnosis. She holds the Mental Health Counseling and Hypnosis Endowed Chair at UW. She supports ICTP’s brief behavioral interventions curriculum and provides individual supervision to the fellows.
Dr. McCann has worked with patients from primary care clinics at Harborview Medical Center for the past 20 years, drawing on brief behavioral interventions to address anxiety, depression, and related problems. She considers her most important work to be her study of adherence to medical regimens for the past 30 years, across a variety of medical conditions and health behaviors. In the future, she would like to see more primary care settings providing access to brief psychotherapies for their patients.