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For ARNPs and Interdisciplinary Clinicians at WA State Department of Corrections – Behavioral Health Related Lectures

  • Trauma-informed care training
    • April A. Gerlock, Ph.D., ARNP, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BCDr. Gerlock is a board certified adult mental health/psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioner and Clinical Professor at the University of Washington, School of Nursing.  She has worked with trauma survivors and people with posttraumatic stress disorder for 40 years. She has published a range of articles pertaining to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the intersection of violence and trauma. Her most recent publication, a book chapter in the Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (Springer), was published in June 2020 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-7_128-1).62122-
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  • Behavioral health in rural areas during the COVID
    • MaryAnne Murray, DNP, EdD, MBA, has lived and worked the past eight years in Pacific County, population 21,000, in the Southwest Corner of Washington State. She provides psychiatric services in a community mental health center and a residential substance abuse treatment center, plus she has a small private practice. She considers herself a refugee from Seattle and rhapsodizes about rural life.
    • Dave Cundiff. MD, MPH, grew up in a Pennsylvania farming town of 500 people. He has served as a physician and public health administrator in large metropolitan areas; on Native American reservations; and in correctional facilities. He now lives in Ilwaco, Washington where he serves on City Council, volunteers with the Pacific County Health Department; and prepares for the Addiction Medicine board exams.
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  • Provider resilience and self-care 
    • Elaine Walsh, PhD, RN, PMHCN-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor in the Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing department at the University of Washington. She is also a Nurse Scientist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.  Dr. Walsh is certified as a Clinical Specialist in Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, and she has provided mental health and suicide risk assessment, intervention, and training in inpatient, school and community settings. Dr. Walsh has been involved in oversight of a number of federally funded clinical trials addressing adolescent depression, suicide risk and other problem behaviors. Her research focuses on implementation and evaluation of suicide prevention and intervention programs. Work at Seattle Children’s focuses on nurse resilience.  Her experience includes teaching undergraduate and graduate nursing courses, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, and developing and evaluating courses.  Dr. Walsh is on the editorial board of two scientific journals, and reviews manuscripts for several additional journals.  She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is an executive board member of the Lois Price Spratlen Foundation, which awards scholarships to advanced practice psychiatric nursing students who demonstrate the character, energy and courage exemplified by Dr. Lois Price Spratlen.
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  • Managing sleep in the context of psychiatry
    • Jean Tang, PhD, PMHNP-BC, ARNP, is a board-certified Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a sleep research scientist. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, University of Washington. She has been providing mental health care to a diverse population in a non-profit outpatient community mental health setting since 2004. Her clinical and research interests include the intersection of sleep medicine, mental health, and aging. She is a principal investigator of a federally funded research study and educational grant. She appreciates how her research, practice, and teaching intersect and enrich one another.
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  • Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic understanding of behaviors in a chronically traumatized population
    • Yoriko Kozuki, PhD, PMHNP-BC, ARNP is Associate Professor at Biobehavioral & Health Informatics Department of Universality of Washington’s School of Nursing. In addition to her academic background as a researcher for various psychiatric conditions including Schizophrenia, Substance Use Disorders, and Comorbidities of Chronic Pain and Psychiatric Disorders, clinically she is a psychoanalyst trained by ApSaA Institute, and was on faculty at Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a certified Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) therapist. Currently Dr. Kozuki practices at Monroe Correctional Complex of WA State Department of Corrections (DOC). Dr. Kozuki has also been involved in many educational grants focusing on APRN workforce development.
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  • Geropsychiatric Pharmaceutical Update
    • Tatiana Sadak, Ph.D., PMHNP, RN, FAAN, FGSA,is an Associate Professor of Geriatric Mental Health Nursing, a Director of Graduate Education, and a Director of Dementia Palliative Education (DPEN) program at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She is a Ph.D. prepared, Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specializing in Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurodegenerative Disorders. Her research and scholarship focus on informing health care delivery for patients living with dementia and their care partners by generating evidence, creating measurement tools, and developing interventions aimed to support clinicians and families working together to prevent avoidable health crises and enable care partners to manage the health of their care recipients without sacrificing their health and wellness. This work has been recognized with Tatiana’s selection as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Sadak received awards as a Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing, a Top doctor/nurse practitioner in psychiatry, and was recognized for a distinguished single research manuscript addressing Geriatric/Gerontological Nursing.
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  • Chronic Pain and the ABC’s of CBT
    • Judith Turner, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, where she has served on the faculty and worked clinically at the multidisciplinary pain center since receiving a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA in 1979.  Dr. Turner is Past President of the International Association for the Study of Pain and former Secretary of the American Pain Society. She has published over 240 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has received the Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator award from the American Pain Society and the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine prize for clinical pain research.  Dr. Turner was a Core Expert Group member in the development of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Chronic Pain. She was also a Core Working Group Participant in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical and Scientific Commission Consensus on Pain Management.  Her current research interests include chronic opioid therapy, effectiveness of opioid tapering and pain self-management treatments, effectiveness of treatments for chronic pain, and predictors and mediators of pain treatment outcomes.
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  • Chronic Pain Workshop with Dr. David Tauben
    • David Tauben, M.D., is a board-certified physician at the Center for Pain Relief at UWMC-Roosevelt and chief of Pain Medicine for UW Medicine. He holds a UW endowed professorship in General Internal Medicine and the Hughes M. & Katherine G. Black Endowed Professorship in Health Psychology & Medicine and is a UW professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. He is director of Medical Student Education in Pain Medicine and medical director for UW TelePain. Dr. Tauben believes each person’s medical condition is a unique experience, so each and every diagnosis and treatment depends on the “who,” in addition to the “where and when” of an individual’s disease. Dr. Tauben earned his M.D. at Tufts University. He is board-certified in both Pain Medicine and Internal Medicine. He is a multi-year principal investigator for UW’s prestigious NIH Center of Excellence in Pain Education.
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  • Chronic Pain, Anxiety and Depression: How to Understand and Address the Mix
    • Mark D. Sullivan received his M.D. and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. After completing an internship in Family Medicine at University of Missouri, he completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington in 1988. He is now Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. He served as attending physician in the UWMC Center for Pain Relief for 33 years. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. He has a new book, written with Jane Ballantyne, The Right to Pain Relief and other deep roots of the opioid epidemic forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
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  • Comorbidities of Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorders  
    • Andrew J. Saxon, M.D.
      Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine
      Director, Center of Excellence in Substance Abuse Treatment and Education (CESATE)
      VA Puget Sound Health Care System, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108
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  • Perinatal Mental Health
    • Dr. Deborah Cowley completed her M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and her Psychiatry residency at the University of Washington.  Currently, she is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She was the department’s Psychiatry Residency Director 1997-2015 and Vice Chair for Education 2005-2020. Her clinical work, teaching, and scholarship focus on perinatal psychiatry, anxiety disorders, and psychiatric education. She is the Medical Director for the University of Washington Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line and Program Director for the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship.  She has served as President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) and a member of the ACGME Psychiatry Milestones Workgroup and American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines Steering Committee.
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  • Trauma-informed Chronic Pain Care in Prison
    • Dr. Sullivan received his M.D. and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. After completing an internship in Family Medicine at University of Missouri, he completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington in 1988. He is now Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. He served as attending physician in the UWMC Center for Pain Relief for 33 years. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. He has a new book, written with Jane Ballantyne, The Right to Pain Relief and other deep roots of the opioid epidemic forthcoming from Oxford University Press
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