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.  

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.

Kari Stephens, PhD is a licensed clinical 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Amy Bauer MD, MS attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley. While getting her medical degree, she found inspiration in her interest in public health and health care and applied that interest to psychiatry. During her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, she spent elective time in South Australia where she discovered a need for psychiatrists to support local providers in underserved and isolated locations. Shecompleted a clinical fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine and research training in Health Care Policy and Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Washington.

Her interests include primary care psychiatry, mobile health, health disparities, and health services research. She has worked as a psychiatric consultant for clinics in the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) and state-wide Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP). She says that her work is centered on people and relationships; not just patients, but also team relationships and the community of committed people who want to improve and practice care in new ways. Five years from now, Dr. Bauer hopes that collaborative care is continuing to better use the technological tools we have to improve the way that care is delivered.

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Mark Duncan, MD is interested in working with fellows on addiction treatment in primary care settings. He attended medical school at Rush University where he developed an interest in co-occuring disorders. Dr. Duncan completed two separate residencies: one in family medicine at West Suburban Medical Center, and one in psychiatry at the University of Washington, where he was also a fellow in the UW Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Hecurrently works in an outpatient psychiatry clinic with general psychiatry patients, consults in addiction psychiatry, is a consultant for both the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) and Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP),works on the Harm Reduction with Pharmacotherapy (HARP) study in alcohol abuse and homelessness, and works with family medicine residents to improve their training in mental health work. He loves his work because it is interesting, there is opportunity to help people and improve lives, and there are opportunities for innovation and creativity. Five years from now, he hopes that collaborative care has stretched to better treat addictions and opiate use to fill the need and potential within that field.