Dr. Wittink is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine. Her research efforts are driven by her clinical experiences as a primary care physician and hospitalist caring for patients with concomitant medical and mental health needs. She has been awarded grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop strategies to elicit and incorporate patient priorities into care. She joined the UR faculty in 2010 to work with other researchers interested in health care decision-making and patient-provider communication. Dr. Wittink is currently developing infrastructure to study and improve health outcomes for patients with serious mental illness.