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.
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.