Katherine Anne Comtois PhD, MPH

Dr. Comtois conducts research evaluating mental health services and the implementation of evidence-based practices in large health systems. She has been the principal investigator on clinical trials to improve services to suicidal individuals and individuals with borderline personality disorder funded by the NIMH, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Military Operational Medicine Research Program. She is the director of the Seattle Implementation Research Conference,, which brings together a range of experts in implementation and implementation research to improve the training, uptake and sustainability of evidence based psychosocial interventions in community settings. Dr. Comtois has directed the Harborview Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program in a public mental health center for almost 20 years.