Early intervention following an episode of psychosis can change a young patient’s outcome. The National Institute of Mental Health recently awarded the Tulane University Department of Psychiatry a grant to expand its work in this vital area.
Tulane’s Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic-New Orleans (EPIC-NOLA) will be part of a six-clinic network that received $5.5 million to study implementation of learning healthcare systems that continually seek to improve care and telemental health in early psychosis care. This is the latest network to be funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and part of its larger initiative called EPINET, which aims to develop effective and high-quality models of care delivery for early psychosis intervention. Ashley Weiss, assistant professor of psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine, will serve as the site principal investigator alongside co-investigator Serena Chaudhry, assistant professor of psychiatry at Tulane.