Ty Lostutter, Ph.D.
tylost@uw.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Training Director, Psychology Internship Program, University of Washington School of Medicine
Ty W. Lostutter, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and serves as the Training Director of the Psychology Internship Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at UW and has been a member of the faculty since 2009. Dr. Lostutter has broad research and clinical interests focus on etiology, prevention and treatment of addictive behaviors and mental health. He has conducted research in the areas of college student drinking prevention; gambling prevention; alcohol and HIV prevention among youth in Vietnam; and alcohol use, academic performance and mental health among college student veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq. He provides psychological services for patients at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance through the SCCA’s Psychiatry/Psychology Service.
Current Grants
College Student Veterans’ Alcohol Use and Academic Reintegration: A Mixed Model Methods Approach
The overall goal is to screen and identify college student veterans who were at risk for alcohol related problems and to conduct qualitative interviews and focus group regarding prevention programming.
Levels of Care of Problem Gambling Services in Washington State
The goal of this research project is researching the current services (prevention, treatment & recovery) available to problem gamblers and their families within Washington State to provide recommendations to Washington State Legislature to reduce harms associated with gambling among its citizens.
Study to Promote Innovation in Rural Integrated Telepsychiatry (PCORI PCS-1406-19295), PI: Fortney
The goal of this project is to conduct and examine a comparative effectiveness trial is whether it is better to expand the scope of integrated care programs to treat patients with more complex psychiatric disorders or to facilitate successful referrals to specialty mental health care.
Social Norms & Skills Training: Motivating Campus Change (NIAAA 2R01AA012547); PI: Larimer
The current application continues a program of research to reduce alcohol use and consequences among college students, and seeks to enhance efficacy, effect sizes, and duration of electronic screening and brief interventions for this population through evaluating optimal program delivery (simultaneous or sequential) for personalized feedback interventions (PFIs), text-message boosters targeting high-risk drinking events, and impact of intervention and assessment timing on outcomes.
Past Grants
Alcohol’s Impact on Academic Success of OEF/OIF College Students
The broad, long-term objective of this research is to assess the relationship of alcohol use, psychiatric symptom severity, coping, social support and TBI history to academic skills and academic performance among OEF/OIF veterans pursuing their postsecondary education.