Christos Dagadakis, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist and medical director of the Mental Health Services Intake and Brief Intervention Service at Harborview and a UW associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Dagadakis has a career-long interest and focus on crisis management, stress management and disability assessment. He works with families and individuals who have acute stress, mental illness or both. His experience has given him an appreciation for the severe impact of mental disorder on function and relationships. He believes good health involves a partnership between the physician and patient, attention to prevention and an effort toward improvement of illness and function.

Dr. Dagadakis earned his M.D. at the UW. His clinical interests include psychiatry, managed care, outcome research, risk management, psychiatric disability and emergency medicine.