What We Do
The Psychiatry Research Office helps department reserachers advance their careers by:
- Providing mentoring and support to early career researchers, trainees and post-docs
- Facilitating proposal submissions and project support for independent clinician researchers in the department
- Coordinating the mentoring and training programs for clinician researchers
- Conducting quarterly research development seminars
- Providing infrastructure support to facilitate opportunities for collaboration across the Research Centers and clinician researchers
Areas of Focus
Our major areas of focus are relevant to the health of our clinical populations:
- Reducing disparities in access and quality of healthcare for all
- Improving treatments for gambling, opioids, and other illicit substances
- Incorporating mindfulness and compassion practices in psychiatric treatments
- Understanding early childhood development to influence trajectories for infants raised in under-resourced environments
- Developing clinical and community-embedded prevention strategies and implementation of interventions that address psychiatric conditions, including ADHD, schizophrenia, psychosis, suicide, and other behavioral health concerns