Despite our relatively small size, there are opportunities for research, quality improvement, and implementation projects across multiple treatment settings, with diverse patient populations, and within and across specialties. We focus on projects that have clinical impacts and/or improve systems of care, and quality improvement and implementation science are programmatic strengths. Here are some of our recent areas of focus. Resident and faculty are noted in italics, though co-authors also include some of our medical students, members of the highly supportive Providence Research Department, and colleagues in other specialties and institutions.
January 2023
Hazel Brogdon, MD 2022-2023 NIDA-AACAP Resident Training Award. "Promoting Substance Use Disorder Screening and Brief Interventions for Adolescents and Destigmatization of Substance Use Disorders and their Treatment in a Local School District Behavioral Health Program". Primary Mentor: Amy Burns, MD
2022
A Case of Potential Pharmacokinetic Kratom-drug Interactions Resulting in Toxicity and Subsequent Treatment of Kratom Use Disorder with Buprenorphine/NaloxoneBrogdon, Hazel D. MD; McPhee, Mackenzie M. OMS4; Paine, Mary F. RPh, PhD; Cox, Emily J. PhD; Burns, Amy G. MD Journal of Addiction Medicine: February 14, 2022
Washington State Psychiatric Association Resident Representatives: Amanda Sekijima, MD; Savannah Patterson, MD
Improving Metabolic Monitoring during Transfers of Care for Psychiatric Patients Discharged from the Inpatient Psychiatric Residency Service on an Antipsychotic Medication. Allison Cohen MD, Quality Improvement Poster Presentation. 2022 Northwest Research Symposium, 4/21/22.
Naloxone Prescription at Discharge to Reduce Incidence of Opioid Overdose. Shelly Haferkamp MD, Quality Improvement Poster Presentation. 2022 Northwest Research Symposium, 4/21/22.
Harm Reduction for Spokane Teaching Health Clinic Patients with Opioid use Disorder. Michael Kinney MD, Quality Improvement Poster Presentation. 2022 Northwest Research Symposium, 4/21/22.
Utilization of PRIME Screening questionnaires in clinical practice. Danny Yang MD, Quality Improvement Poster Presentation. 2022 Northwest Research Symposium, 4/21/22.
Duty to Warn Notification in Residency Training. Savannah Patterson MD, Quality Improvement Poster Presentation. 2022 Northwest Research Symposium, 4/21/22.
What restricts means restriction? Iulius Grecu MD, Poster Presentation. American Psychiatric Association 2022 annual meeting.
Contingency Management: Dealing Abstinence from Methamphetamines. Casey Collins MD, Amy Burns, MD Northwest Research Symposium, 4/21/22.
Casey Collins MD won the Northwest Research Symposium for his work implementing Contingency Management for patients with Methamphetamine Use Disorder. As you can see here, his children were a big help.
2021
Washington State Psychiatric Association Resident Representatives: Amanda Sekijima, MD; Savannah Patterson, MD
"Implementing Contingency Management in the Clinic Setting" Sara Parent, ND; Mick McDonnell, PhD; Casey Collins, MD and Amy Burns, MD, workshop on at 2021 American Association of Addiction Psychiatrists Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium.
"Strategies for Improving Metabolic Monitoring in Outpatient Psychiatry Patients on Second Generation Antipsychotics" Shane Rall MD. Poster. American Psychiatric Association 2021 Annual Meeting.
"Increasing Community Service Participation in Psychiatry Residents at SHMC to Enhance Community Cohesion and Overall Well Being" William Lehecka DO. Poster. 2021 Association for Academic Psychiatry Annual Meeting.
Maximizing use of the Benzo-minimizing Protocol for Alcohol Withdrawal: A User-Friendly Approach.Jenny Gaston MD Poster. 2021 Northwest Research Symposium.
Micro-dosing: A Better Way to Transition to Buprenorphine. Iulius Grecu MD. Poster. 2021 Northwest Research Symposium.
Cardiac Transplant Psychiatry Curriculum Development. Caitlin Klamper MD. Poster. 2021 Northwest Research Symposium.
Education: Patient-Focused Clinical Pathway for inpatient Management of Opioid use Disorder (OUD). Chris Hellekson MD, Kelsey Martell MD. Poster. 2021 Northwest Research Symposium.
PMID 34864786 - Hazel Brogdon, Kaden L Facer, Emily J Cox, Richard H Carlson Jr, John F Wurzel 3rd - Rapid Transition to Buprenorphine in a Patient With Methadone-Related QTc Interval Prolongation, J Addict Med, 2021.
