New Center for Addictions, Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations

Seattle's Harborview Medical Center opened a new research and training center to improve the quality and coordination of care for disadvantaged patients with mental illness and the co-morbid conditions of addictions and chronic medical illness.  The Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations (CHAMMP) will serve as an "incubator" for innovative pilot research projects designed to address shortcomings and disparities in health outcomes for medically vulnerable populations.  Dr. Peter Roy-Byrne, chief of psychiatry at Harborview and UW professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences is the Center's director; Toni Krupski, PhD (formerly Research Administrator at DASA) is the associate director.