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.
Denise Chang, MD completed her medical degree at the University of Iowa and then went on to complete residency training in psychiatry at the University of Washington. She then did further training as a Psychosomatic Medicine Fellow, also at the University of Washington, and this is where she had her first experience working in collaborative care, doing a rotation with Dr. Anna Ratzliff. Following fellowship, she joined the faculty working in the Behavioral Health Integration Program, which at the time was a new collaborative care initiative at the University of Washington, working in primary care clinics providing mental health consultation.
She has helped launch two collaborative care programs, one in the UW Neighborhood clinic system and another at a primary care site within UW Medicine. For ICTP, she organizes the clinical rotations for the fellows as well as helps provide support to the clinical faculty that supervise the fellows.She also works on quality improvement projects within collaborative care as well as helping the fellows learn about quality improvement.
Dr. Chang believes that her most important work is ensuring patients are receiving quality mental health care and promoting collaborative care as a means to improving access to mental health to all patients. She hopes that in the future, that there will be improvements in our health care system to allow for even more efficient use of our mental health resources, and to improve access to that care so that more patients are being reached, leading to improved clinical outcomes.
Jennifer Erickson, DO graduated with a Bachelors in Neuroscience from Washington State University. She completed her osteopathic medical degree at Western University of Health Sciences. Her adult psychiatry residency and outpatient chief year were completed at the University of New Mexico. She finished a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York.
During her chief year, Dr. Erickson worked primarily with the outpatient university clinics and developed an acute awareness of how co-located care and community mental health centers’ referral process affect patient access. During fellowship she worked closely with PCPs who often struggled with managing psychiatric problems while awaiting psychiatric support. Collaborative care offered a way for patients to access psychiatric care and a way to support primary care providers as they manage psychiatric issues.
Dr. Erickson was excited to expand her experience with this model at the University of Washington Medical Center. She currently works at the UW Medical Center, three outpatient clinics, and one telepsychiatry clinic that use the Collaborative Care Model. Her interests include neuropsychiatry, medical ethics, population health, and medical education. Five years from now she anticipates that collaborative care experiences will be part of residency education. She feels that her most important work is teaching patients, trainees, and collaborators about psychiatric presentations and collaborative care.