The Division of Health Services Research (DHSR) is a part of the Department of Psychiatry, UAMS College of Medicine. Previously known as the Centers for Mental Health Care Research, DHSR has been recognized as one of the largest, most comprehensive and most innovative health services research centers in the nation for over a decade. DHSR has received a tremendous amount of support from NIMH and the VA since it was formally organized in 1990. DHSR was home to an NIMH Center from 1990 until 2004, and it is currently the home of two VA-funded research centers (see box) and a Fellowship Training Program in Mental Health Services Research.  

Mission:
To improve mental health care in the United States through the development, implementation, and dissemination of policy relevant health services research.

Themes that guide our work:
1) Access to and utilization of care
2) Outcomes and effectiveness of care
3) Costs and efficacy of care with an emphasis on managed care.

Faculty Accomplishments:
Publications: The researchers at DHSR published 60 articles and 2 book chapters in 2006 and 47 articles in 2007. So far this year they have published 24 articles and they have 6 articles in press.

Grants: Since 1990, researchers working at DHSR have been awarded extramural grants worth well over 80 million dollars in direct costs, and they have served on most of the major HSR study sections that review mental health and substance abuse health services research (including NIMH, NIDA, and VA HSR committees).

Directors

John Fortney, Ph.D., is the Director of the Division of Health Services Research. Geoffrey Curran, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the Division of Health Services Research. Greer Sullivan, M.D., is Director of the South Central MIRECC.