Profile
Mari Yamamoto
Assistant Professor
Residency
mariy@uw.edu
Biography
Mari Yamamoto, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington. She is the Interim Director of Integrated Behavioral Health, Associate Program Director for Clinical Competency, and Director of Behavioral Health Education. She earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Seattle Pacific University and completed her internship training at the VA Northern California Healthcare System in Martinez and Oakland, California and a postdoctoral fellowship at VA Puget Sound – Seattle Division in Primary Care Mental Health Integration. She has previously worked in Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, and Iora Primary Care in the Greater Seattle area, working in an integrated primary care clinic for older adults. She enjoys working in integrated care settings and has interests in behavioral medicine/health psychology (e.g., pain, chronic disease management), older adults, insomnia, women’s health, and integrated primary care program development and implementation. Dr. Yamamoto enjoys hiking, baking, playing the piano, and visiting parks and eating pastries with her two young kids and spouse.