First Round TGIF Recipients Announced
 Corey Fagan, Ph.D., and Ron Smith, Director of Clinical Training, together in front of the national awards the clinic has won. |
The Technology Gap Innovation Fund (TGIF), a joint program of UW TechTransfer and the Washington Research Foundation, announces the first round recipients for 2009. The $50,000 awards are used to advance the development of UW innovations.
Included in the recipients are Corey Fagan, Ph.D. and Jon Hauser of Psychology, who will complete the development of the TOPS (Tracking Outcomes of Psychological Services) platform, originally implemented as a pilot system in the UW’s Psychological Services and Training Center. While many mental health treatments are found to be highly-effective when properly delivered mental health practitioners lack the quantitative data necessary to determine the parameters of quality treatment delivery.
 Jon Hauser of Psychology is part of the TOPS team. |
TOPS allows providers of psychological services to monitor patient outcomes, by bundling over 40 psychometrically-sound instruments that monitor client functioning at baseline, at each session, and at termination. TOPS captures data that will enable mental health practitioners to improve upon treatments, treatment measures and training techniques over time.
