It might have been Alec Gibson’s gentle drawl that did it. He and his patient, another transplanted Southerner, started chatting. They developed rapport.
While this may sound like a standard doctor-...
Liberia was in the midst of a devastating Ebola outbreak when Bernice Dahn, the country's chief medical officer, went to visit her ailing special assistant at his home on Sept. 20, 2014. When the 55-...
World leaders in global health are featured speakers at the University of Washington’s (UW) public symposium, "Global Health: Next Decade, Next Generation," on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Husky Union...
The University of Wyoming has approved plans to renovate the Laramie campus to accommodate both first- and second-year students simultaneously -- a reflection of new curriculum in the University of...
09/13/2017
Every day there are more than 5,400 suicide attempts by students in grades seven through 12 in the United States. In Washington state, the suicide rate is higher than the national average.
Jennifer...
01/25/2018
While most suicide intervention efforts have been focused on mental health and emergency room settings, professionals throughout all medical fields play a critical role in suicide prevention.
Now,...
03/02/2018
The University of Washington made a giant commitment in the field of global mental health with the hiring of Dr. Pamela Collins from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Collins started in her...
03/15/2018
The University of Washington School of Medicine, part of UW Medicine, will establish the world’s first academic department devoted to the science of health metrics. The new Department of Health...
10/23/2018
The Bozeman clinic, which began taking patients in January, is UW School of Medicine students’ first mental health project.
Roughly eight students rotate through Community Health Partners twice a...
05/08/2019
Barely half of U.S. obstetrics-gynecology residency programs offer instruction about transgender medicine, according to UW Medicine research published recently in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Among 100...