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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ramanpreet Toor, MD has completed her psychiatry residency at Baystate Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Consultation‑Liaison Psychiatry fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. She is board Certified in Consult-Liaison Psychiatry.
She is currently a faculty member at the University of Washington (UW), serving as a psychiatric consultant for the UW Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP), UW’s Collaborative Care program. She also provides psychiatric consultation for the Perinatal Psychiatry Washington Provider Consultation Line.
She previously served as Program Director for the Population Mental Health and Integrated Care Fellowship and is currently leading the Mental Health Learning Series for primary care providers, a program focused on training PCPs to assess and deliver evidence‑based treatment for common mental health conditions.
Her professional interests include improving access to mental health care, increasing community awareness of mental health disorders, and advancing perinatal psychiatry.
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 psychotherapy and 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 that grew 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.
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.
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.
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD received her MD and PhD from the University of California, Irvine. She completed her residency at the University of Washington. While completing her residency, she found an appreciation for doing clinical work and helping patients. While Dr. Ratzliff was chief resident, she discovered that she enjoyed working in education as well.
Dr. Ratzliff’s first job out of residency was in the collaborative care field where she was able to work with patients, in teams, and in education. Integrated care began to grow from a few cities to statewide, and she was asked to develop teaching materials. She is currently working on expanding training in collaborative care within Washington State, as well as with the American Psychiatry Association to educate 10% of all psychiatrists in the U.S. in this method.
Dr. Ratzliff believes that her work with the APA is the most influential work that she has done in her career and hopes that it will help the most patients. Five years from now, Dr. Ratzliff hopes that most people will be able to access collaborative care.