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National Center for PTSD 1989-2009
Two decades of progress
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The National Center for PTSD celebrates 20 years. Learn about the Center's history and contributions to the assessment, treatment and prevention of PTSD.
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"The National Center has become the flagship agency throughout the world dealing with the problem of PTSD. Their primary mission has been to do so from the VA context, and we can identify many things they've done in VA that have made a huge difference. But the impact of the National Center really transcends their work with VA.
"If you talk to people around the world and ask them what is the absolute best resource for clinical practice, research, education on PTSD, more people than not would identify the National Center."
-Dean Kilpatrick
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"Much of the knowledge we have about PTSD has been generated from researchers and educators and clinicians at the National Center, through their work at the National Center or in collaboration with people around the country. They've been really major players in the field of traumatic stress.
"I've collaborated over the years with people at just about all the sites. One of their strengths is collaboration with people in universities and other VA settings throughout the country. And the generosity of their willingness to share their knowledge, to mentor, to teach, to train."
- John Fairbank
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"The National Center leadership had the ability to put together a constellation of talented people who were willing to work together - and who were open enough to others' ideas to go out and form other collaborations both in and outside the VA. There was always an openness to doing the best, doing what was right, accepting new ideas and people, and then passing it on through mentoring and teaching."
-Jessica Wolfe
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"The National Center really brought PTSD to the nation's attention through their involvement in the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study in the late 1980s. This landmark study brought to the attention of the nation the problems of PTSD and its long-enduring nature.
"They have also been a central icon to keep a focus on the needs of veterans. This is indispensable, critical. They have a marvelous network of researchers and care providers."
- Robert Ursano, M.D.
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Dean Kilpatrick, Professor of Clinical Psychology; Director, National Crime Victims Research & Treatment Center; Interim Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina |
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John Fairbank, Associate Professor, Duke University Medical Center; Co-Director, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress; Chair of VA Secretary's Special Committee on PTSD; head of the VISN4 MIRECC; and past president of ISTSS. |
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Jessica Wolfe, PhD, Founder of the Women's Health Sciences Division and currently CEO of Blue Pond Wellness |
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John Fairbank, Associate Professor, Duke University Medical Center; Co-Director, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress; Chair of VA Secretary's Special Committee on PTSD; head of the VISN4 MIRECC; and past president of ISTSS. |
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Robert Ursano, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Chair, Department of Psychiatry; and Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine. |
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