The department hosts an AIDS Prevention Research Center, one of only a handful of such centers nationwide and has received over 25 million dollars in research funding in this area. The Psychiatry Department collaborates with other specialties at the Medical Center in conducting functional MRI research regarding cocaine and other drugs of abuse. The Foley Center for the research of Older Adult Development provides another psychiatry department function. The department is an active participant in the American Organization of Occupational Psychiatry and co-sponsors the Milwaukee Cognitive Therapy Institute. The Wisconsin New Training Facility of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis consists of full time and clinical departmental faculty members.
Additional research focuses on clinical drug protocols and brain mapping.
The MCW Psychiatry Department is currently the only non-Chicago member of the Chicago Research Consortium and one of the leaders in research funding. Finally, it is one of the leaders in academic managed care. Founded in 1926, the Medical Group Management Association is the oldest and largest organization representing medical group practice. There are over 8,300 member medical groups, representing over 209,000 physicians, and over 21,000 individual members involved in administration. Its mission is to utilize its membership s knowledge, experience, and expertise in the use of Internet-based technologies to address healthcare delivery issues.