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.
Staff Type: Faculty
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.
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.
Mark Newman, MD
Mark Newman, MD attended the University of Florida for medical school and completed residency at the University of Michigan. During training, he particularly enjoyed inpatient consultation and the opportunity to collaborate with non-psychiatrists on treating medically and mentally ill patients. Dr. Newman completed a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Northwestern University working primarily in an inpatient setting. His long-standing interest in integrating systems of care and reducing inefficiencies is well-suited to the University of Washington’s Collaborative Care model. Dr. Newman currently practices at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and consults to two Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) Clinics. He is most attracted to Collaborative Care because it offers a more productive way to provide mental health care. Dr. Newman hopes that Collaborative Care continues to spread to more locations and further leverages and improves mental health in a systematic way.
Katherine Palm-Cruz, MD
Katherine Palm-Cruz, MDattended medical school at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She was first inspired to pursue psychiatry during a third-year medical school rotation in psychiatry where a patient expressed gratitude to the team for allowing him to regain hope to live. She started a residency at the University of California, Irvine but transferred to the University of Washington, where she found interest in psychopharmacology, perinatal mental health, and integrated care. She currently works in Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) and Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) clinics. She is attracted to integrated care because she appreciates working with a team and being able to have an impact on the greatest number of patients, especially as a way to serve patients with limited resources and address mental health disparities. She cites her most important work as contributions she is able to make within teaching, especially with collaborative care teams to provide higher quality patient care and better patient outcomes. Five years from now, Dr. Palm-Cruz hopes that integrated care is the standard of care and more present within medicine.
Patrick Raue, PhD
Patrick J. Raue, PhD is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook in 1995.
Dr. Raue is Associate Director for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions at the AIMS Center, and Director of the National Network of PST Clinicians, Trainers & Researchers. In these roles, he develops and leads implementation and training programs in a variety of behavioral health interventions.
Dr. Raue’s clinical expertise includes the identification and management of mental health conditions in medical settings including primary care and home health care. Dr. Raue conducts NIMH-supported research on patient preferences and shared decision-making approaches for depression; the effectiveness of psychotherapy among older adults; and suicidal ideation.
Bradford Felker, MD
Bradford Felker, MD completed a combined Psychiatry-Internal Medicine residency at the University of Virginia leading to board certification in both fields. He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry and began his career at the VA, where he developed one of the first programs to integrate primary care services for patients with mental disorders within a specialty mental health clinic. Based on this work, he was recruited to join the faculty at the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He continued his work with the VA in Seattle. He then implemented one of the first integrated care services within the VA. This Primary Care Mental Health Integration Service grew to include the two medical centers and seven community-based outpatient clinics at VA Puget Sound. This program was recognized as one of the top ten programs in the VA. His research has been in the area of developing models of care management, implementation of integrated care programs, and the assessment and treatment of PTSD in primary care. His recent research is focused on studying the implementation of tele-mental health services within primary care. Based on this work, he was asked by the Office of Academic Affiliations within the VA to develop next-generation integrated care curriculum at the seven Center of Excellence for Primary Care Education sites in the VA. As a result of his work with integrated care in rural areas, he developed an interest in tele-mental health. He has implemented an innovative network of tele-mental health services that now link all sites within VA Puget Sound as well as many other sites across the Northwest Region. Dr. Felker believes his most important work is developing care management models in the VA as well as looking at ways to integrate all the emerging tele-technologies (Clinical Video Teleconference [CVT], web-based, apps, etc.) into routine mental health care that is delivered within primary care. Dr. Felker believes that in five years tele-health teams as we currently know them will no longer exist. Mental health providers will routinely use a broad range of these emerging technologies to extend the reach, access, and the types of mental health care delivered in all kinds of new settings.
William French, MD
William French, MD attended medical school at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, KY. During his psychiatric residency there, he gained an appreciation for the importance of viewing primary care patients’ concerns through a biopsychosocial lens during a rotation in family medicine. After completing his child and adolescent fellowship at the University of Kentucky, he moved with his family to Seattle to join the faculty in the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and began working at Seattle Children’s Hospital as an outpatient child psychiatrist. Dr. French supervises fellows at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, and Harborview Medical Center. Additionally, he provides Collaborative Care consultation to Harborview’s outpatient pediatric clinic and to several school-based health centers in the Seattle area. He finds child psychiatry rewarding because it gives him the opportunity to change the health trajectories for young people at an early age before their problems become more intractable. Dr. French’s interests include Collaborative Care, trauma interventions, telepsychiatry, and disruptive behavior disorders. He says that his most important work is helping to improve health care delivery and outcomes for mental health disorders in community-based primary care settings. He believes that every child deserves the opportunity to have a healthy life and meet his or her full potential. What keeps him going is helping his patients reach their goals without mental illness blocking the way. Five years from now, Dr. French hopes that there has been an acceleration and growth in the utilization of Collaborative Care models in primary care, especially for pediatric populations.