Mental Health Innovation Services & Outcomes (MHISO)

Suicide:

• Predictors and warning signs of suicidal behaviors and suicide mortality
• Development of suicide prevention interventions and studying the effectiveness of interventions clinical trials
• Personalized approaches to suicide prevention
• Testing implementation strategies to increase the reach of evidence-based suicide prevention practices

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD):

• Optimizing trauma-focused evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD
• Developing and testing strategies for addressing PTSD comorbidities
• Improving training for PTSD psychotherapies and increasing access to care for PTSD

Primary and mental health care integration:

• Implementation and evaluation of integrated care in VHA and across Michigan
• Testing the expansion of integrated care practices to address conditions such as PTSD and loneliness

Mood Disorders:

• Perinatal depression
• Depression care quality and outcomes in VHA, including subspecialty services such as ketamine or esketamine for treatment resistant depression

Substance abuse disorders and dual diagnoses:

• Outcome predictors for substance abuse treatment
• Brief interventions for substance use disorders

Primary Research Faculty

• Paul Pfeiffer, MD, MS
• Kara Zivin, PhD
• Rebecca Sripada, PhD
• Courtney Bagge, PhD
• Peter Grau, PhD
• Kevin Saulnier, PhD
• Nicholas Bowersox, PhD, ABPP
• John McCarthy, PhD

Affiliated Faculty:

• Frederic C. Blow, PhD
• Mark A. Ilgen, PhD
• Amy Bohnert, PhD
• Donovan Maust, MD
• Lewei Allison Lin, MD, MS