Leadership at the National Center

The National Center has emerged as the world's leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD. Its vision is to be the foremost leader in information on PTSD and trauma; information generated internally through its extensive research program, and information synthesized from published scientific research and collective clinical experience that is efficiently disseminated to the field.

Matthew Friedman, MD, PhD, the Executive Director of the Executive Division in White River Junction, Vermont, is a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at Dartmouth Medical School, and is recognized as a world leader in the field of traumatic stress studies. He has worked with PTSD patients as a clinician and researcher for 30 years and has published extensively on stress and PTSD, biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and clinical outcome studies on depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and chemical dependency.

Comprehensive information about the National Center, the Divisions and biographies of the Directors is available in About the National Center for PTSD.