Robert Ursano, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health and Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. Dr. Ursano received his M.D. from Yale University. He has served as the Department of Defense representative to the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health and a past member of the National Institute of Mental Health Rapid Trauma and Disaster Grant Review Section.
Dr. Ursano is the editor of Psychiatry. He has received the Department of Defense Humanitarian Service Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Traumatic Stress Society. Dr. Ursano is widely published in the field of PTSD and the psychological effects of terrorism, bioterrorism, and traumatic events and disasters, and combat. He has been a member of many national advisory boards related to metal health including the IOM Committee on Psychological Responses to Terrorism.
