Richard Ries, MD, FAPA, FASM

Founding Faculty

Medical Director (2019-2025)

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Role

Dr. Ries is an addiction psychiatrist and practicing board certified psychiatrist with a focus on the grey area of addiction and suicide and former CSPAR medical director.

Background

Dr. Ries developed Preventing Addiction Related Suicide (PARS) and its training partner PARSWeb, a suicide prevention module developed in and for community substance use intensive outpatient programs. Before retiring, Dr. Ries provided inpatient, outpatient, and tele-consultation at UW Medicine and consults internationally on addiction and suicide.

Publications

Ries, R. K., Livengood, A. L., Huh, D., Kerbrat, A. H., Fruhbauerova, M., Turner, B., & Comtois, K. A. (2022). Effectiveness of a Suicide Prevention Module for Adults in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open, 5(4), e222945. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2945
Yuodelis-Flores, C., & Ries, R. K. (2015). Addiction and suicide: A review. The American Journal on Addictions, 24(2), 98–104. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajad.12185

Hallgren, K. A., Ries, R. K., Atkins, D. C., Bumgardner, K., & Roy-Byrne, P. (2017). Prediction of Suicide Ideation and Attempt Among Substance-Using Patients in Primary Care. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: JABFM, 30(2), 150–160. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.02.160264

Tauscher, J. S., Cohn, E. B., Johnson, T. R., Diteman, K. D., Ries, R. K., Atkins, D. C., & Hallgren, K. A. (2021). What do clinicians want? Understanding frontline addiction treatment clinicians’ preferences and priorities to improve the design of measurement-based care technology. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 16(1), 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-021-00247-5

Find Richard Ries on Pubmed for a full list of works.