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Dept. of Health Services
Program Affiliations
Jurgen Unutzer
Adjunct Professor
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (primary appt.)
Adjunct Professor, Global Health

Research Interests:
Improving the care of older adults with depression and comorbid medical disorders

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Contact Information

email:   unutzer@u.washington.edu
web site:   http://www.uwpsychiatry.org/

address:
1959 NE Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195-6560

campus box:   356560
voice:   206-543-3128

Education

MPH   University of Washington, 1996   (Health Services)
MD   Vanderbilt University, 1990
MA   University of Chicago, 1988   (Public Policy)
BS   Iowa State University, 1983   (Biochemistry, History, Zoology)

Dissertation, Thesis & Capstone Committees (recent HSERV graduates)

2012
Member, thesis committee for Hsiang Huang
Depression care in a chronically ill Medicare population

2010
Chair, thesis committee for Erin Hafer
Improving mental health care for safety net populations: An examination of the general assistance unemployable mental health integration pilot

2009
Chair, thesis committee for Alison Roberts
Improving the Quality of Care of Metabolic Risk Factors among Outpatients with Schizophrenia in a Large, County Public Mental Health System, 2007 to 2008

Projects

University of Washington School of Medicine
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, one of the top psychiatric clinical, research, and teaching institutions in the country.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is a leader in research areas such as depression and anxiety, geriatric and child psychiatry, Alzheimer's disease, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and in psychotherapeutic techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.

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