Santa Monica Psychiatrist Presents Collaborative Care Research

Posted on: October 28, 2017

Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care

By Katherine E. Watkins, M.D., M.S.H.S.

Katherine E. Watkins is a Santa Monica psychiatrist and senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation. The overall goal of her research is to improve the quality of care for individuals with behavioral health disorders, by developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative treatments and treatment models of health care delivery.

In August, 2017 I, along with a number of my colleagues, published a research paper titled “Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care” in the Journal of the American Medical Association-Internal Medicine. (more…)

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