The University of Washington, in collaboration with Forefront, has been awarded a three-year, $300,000 suicide-prevention grant to launch Husky Help & Hope, a comprehensive suicide-prevention...
Dr. Gabor Maté, the renowned author on addictions, last week told more than 100 UW health-sciences students that the educational framework they are being taught is woefully inadequate because it...
For a group of UW students looking to improve lives in a desert slum in Peru, creating green space has been a daunting challenge.
But the rewards have been great: Flowers and vegetables are now...
Suicide prevention in Washington state took a significant step forward March 27 when Gov. Jay Inslee signed House Bill 2315, a bill that requires basic training in suicide assessment, treatment, and...
Wayne Katon, vice chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a pioneer in collaborative mental health care, died March 1 from lymphoma. He was 64.
“Wayne was truly a great human being, a mensch...
She’s won awards for pioneering approaches to pharmacy, but UW faculty member Elyse Tung remains modest about her work. “My goal has never been to win an award but to be very productive, offer the...
Dr. Kathryn E. Barnard, UW School of Nursing professor emeritus and eponymous founder of the school’s Barnard Center on Infant Mental Health and Development, died June 27. She was 77.
Barnard was an...
John Meehan, a pioneer in pediatric robotic surgery, is used to speaking at medical conferences. But when he traveled to Russia in August for a meeting of pediatric surgeons, he was thrust into an...
Dr. Bonnie W. Ramsey, a leader in cystic fibrosis clinical care and research, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine. Ramsey is a UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s...
Dr. Norman E. Breslow, 74, who helped shape the modern field of biostatistics and had a nearly 50-year career at the University of Washington, died Dec. 9 after a long illness.
Brilliance and a sense...