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.  

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. 

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 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.

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 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.

Tanya Keeble, MD received her medical degree from the University of London Medical School. She completed a medical and surgical foundation year before specializing in psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital Psychiatry Training Program. She then spent a year in New Zealand working in first episode psychosis and community psychiatry before completing a psychiatry residency at the University of Washington Psychiatry Training Program: Spokane Track.

She arrived in Collaborative Care through the UW Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) program in 2010, and worked as a Collaborative Care psychiatrist in a community health center in Spokane for 5 years, before moving her focus to training residents in the Collaborative Care setting. She considers Collaborative Care to be one of her three career passions, with the other two being psychotherapyand residency education. She maintains a psychotherapy practice in intensive short-term dynamic therapy and firmly believes that psychiatrists should continue to develop skills in psychotherapy as well as medication treatment. She teaches and educates residents and medical students in her role as Program Director for Psychiatry Residency Spokane, a residency training program thatgrew out of the Spokane Track of the UW program from which she graduated.

She is attracted to Collaborative Care because of its focus on outcome-based treatment, commitment to education of both the patient and the primary care provider, strong teamwork focus, and stepped treatment so that the patients who are the sickest and often most disenfranchised get the care that they need. Five years from now, she hopes that Collaborative Care is both financially self-sustainingand the standard of care across the US for patients in the primary care setting.