Dr. Richardson is the Director of the ACGME-accredited UW Adolescent Medicine Fellowship program and a Co-director of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded T32 Psychiatry in Primary Care Fellowship Program. In these roles, she oversees all aspects of curriculum development for fellowship training. She has served as a research mentor for multiple medical fellows, junior faculty, MPH students and psychology trainees. She has been a very active member of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) including current membership on the Research and Program Committees and prior membership on the Abstract Review Committee.

She is currently the SAHM Associate Director of Programs with an anticipate transition to a board position as the Director of Programs in 2014. She has served as an invited grant reviewer for HRSA and NIH.

She is a health services researcher and leader in the field of developing innovative models to integrate of mental health treatment into primary care settings for adolescents with depression and other concerns. She is also co-investigator and a co-leader of the care coordination quality indicator development workgroup in the UW-based Child Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Center of Excellence on Quality of Care Measures for Children with Complex Needs a program administered jointly by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

She is also a member of the Behavioral Health Technical Subgroup which serves in an advisory role to the National Center for Quality Assurance (NCQA) -based National Collaborative for Innovation in Quality Measurement funded by the same program. She has been an active consultant with the Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center at the UW through which she has provided training and technical assistance to clinical and administrative entities regarding collaborative mental health treatment in adolescents for programs. She was an invited participant in the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council Board on Children, Youth and Families sponsored planning meeting for a proposed forum on Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Integrating Services in Primary Care Settings and in the Suicide Prevention Resource Center-sponsored Suicide Prevention in Primary Care Settings conference.

Dr. Richardson serves as the Associate Director and, with her experience in training curricula development, oversees development of the UW LEAH leadership training component and leads the Training, Curriculum, and Recruitment committee.