Paula Schnurr, PhD

National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health, Dartmouth College

Dr. Paula Schnurr is a psychologist who is Executive Director of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health. She previously served as the Center’s Deputy Executive Director, beginning in 1989, as one of the Center’s founders. She is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and is Editor-in-Chief of the Clinician’s Trauma Update–Online. Dr. Schnurr is Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Traumatic Stress. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research focuses on PTSD treatment and on risk and resilience factors associated with the long-term physical and mental health outcomes of traumatic exposure.