Psychiatry
Psychiatry (PSY)
PSY Contacts
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Department of Psychiatry
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799
Chair (301) 295-3294
FAX (USUHS) (301) 295-1536
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PSY - Local/NCA Faculty
Kelly L. Cozza, MD
Name: Kelly L. Cozza, MD
Research Interests:
Medical Education
HIV and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Education
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Categorical Psychiatry Internship and Psychiatry Residency 1987-1990
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Consultation-Liaison Fellowship 1992-1993
Biography
Dr. Kelly Cozza received her medical degree from Creighton University in 1987, and completed her psychiatric residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC in 1991. She served as the 3rd Armored Division Psychiatrist and Division Surgeon in Frankfurt, Germany, after which she completed her Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at Walter Reed in 1993. She has served as the Chief and Fellowship Director of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (1994-1997). After leaving the military, she was the integrated psychiatrist specializing in HIV on the Infectious Disease Service at Walter Reed and for the Department of Defense from 1997-2006, and a consultant to Walter Reed’s Psychiatric Residency program until her return as a clinician-educator in 2015.
Dr. Kelly Cozza has published and lectured extensively in the areas of psychopharmacology and HIV/AIDS. She is the co-chair of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Special Interest Group for HIV, and a founding member of the World Psychiatric Association Workgroup/Section for HIV. She is also a reviewer and former editorial board member for Psychosomatics, the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Dr. Cozza has more than 26 years of experience in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (Psychosomatic Medicine) and HIV care. Her current areas of clinical and research interest include HIV psychopharmacology and treatment, collaborative care of medically complicated older adults, PTSD in medically ill older adults, and psychiatric education for medical students.
Derrick A. Hamaoka, M.D., Colonel, Air Force
Name: Derrick A. Hamaoka, M.D., Colonel, Air Force
Research Interests:
Medical Education
Education
M.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Biography
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- Assistant Chair, Medical Education, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Associate Program Director, Psychiatry, University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA)
- Officer in Charge, Combat Stress Control, Adder Iraq
- Psychiatry Clerkship Director, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Eric G Meyer, MD, Major, Air Force

Name: Eric G Meyer, MD, Major, Air Force
Research Interests:
Medical Education
Military Culture
Education
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD
Doctor of Philosophy (anticipated 2020)
Dissertation Topic: “The Use of Entrustable Professional Activities to Assess Medical Students During the Clerkship Year”
Psychiatry Residency (June 2014)
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), San Antonio, TX
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC), San Antonio, TX
Research Track
Chief Resident of Medical Student Education
Medical School (May 2010)
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD – Alpha Omega Alpha
Doctor of Medicine
Undergraduate (May 2005)
Boston University (BU), Boston, MA – Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a minor in Biology
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Biography
Joshua C Morganstein, M.D., Captain, Public Health

Name: Joshua C Morganstein, M.D., Captain, Public Health
Research Interests:
Disaster Mental Health
Risk and Crisis Communication
Education
1997-2001 Uniformed Services University (USU), Bethesda, MD (M.D.)
2001-2002 Internship in General Psychiatry & Family Medicine, National Capital Consortium, Washington, DC
2002-2006 Residency in General Psychiatry & Family Medicine, National Capital Consortium, Washington, DC
Biography
James C West Jr., M.D., Captain, Navy

Name: James C West Jr., M.D., Captain, Navy
Research Interests:
Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
Medical Education
Education
B.S.E. 1989 United States Naval Academy
Biography
His research interests include clinical trials of medications and psychotherapy for PTSD, assessment methods in psychiatry education, and understanding risk assessment and communication about personal firearms and military service members. Dr. West is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and currently serves as assembly representative for the Society of Uniformed Services Psychiatrists.
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- Riluzole for PTSD: Trial of a Glutamatergic Modulator as Augmentation Pharmacotherapy
- Enhancing Fear Extinction via Angiotensin Type 1 Receptor Inhibition: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Losartan for PTSD
- Combat and Operational Stress Control Officer, Combat Logistics Regiment 15, Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Feb 2010 - Sep 2010
- Operational Stress Control and Readiness Psychiatrist, Regimental Combat Team 5, Camp Fallujah, Iraq, Aug 2006 - Jan 2007
- Assistant Director/Acting Director of Behavioral Health, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Dec 2009 - Jan 2013
- Psychiatry Clerkship Director, USUHS, Jan 2013 - Mar 2016
Bibliography
- West, J. C., Morganstein, J. C., Meyer, E.G., & Wynn, G. H. (2017). Real Stress Reactions in Simulation: Vignettes from Extended Mass-Casualty Simulations. Academic Psychiatry. Online ahead of print.
- West, J. C., Woodson, J. T., & Benedek, D. M. (2015). Large-Scale Simulation for Teaching Combat and Operational Stress Control: Operation Bushmaster. Academic Psychiatry, 39(4), 398-401.
- West, J.C., Morganstein, J., & Ursano, R.J. (2017). Work-Associated Trauma. In Brower, K., Riba, M., (Eds.) Physican Mental Health and Well-Being: Research and Practice. New York: Springer.
- West, J., Morganstein, J. (2016). Psychological Effects on Military Personnel Assigned to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Missions. In Christadoulou G. (ed.) Crises and Disasters: Psychosocial Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- West J., Schreiber M. D., Benedek, D., & Reissman D. B. (2016). Disaster Behavioral Health. In K. Koenig & C. Schultz (Eds.) Disaster Medicine (pp124-136). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Morganstein, J., West, J., Huff, A., Flynn, B., Fullerton, C., Benedek, D. M., & Ursano, R. J. (2016). Psychosocial Responses to Disaster and Exposures: Distress Reactions, Health Risk Behaviors, and Mental Disorders. In Shigemura J (Ed.) Mental Health and Social Issues Following a Nuclear Accident (pp. 99-117), Tokyo: Springer Japan.
- West, J., Benedek, D., Hamaoka, D., & Ursano, R. (2015). Managing Psychological Consequences in Disaster Populations. In Tasman, A. (Ed.), Psychiatry (pp. 2521-2532). West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell.
- West J. (2015) Personal Firearm Safety Counseling for Primary Care Providers: a Fact Sheet. http://www.cstsonline.org/resources/resource-master-list/firearm-safety.
- West, J. (2015). Therapeutic Alliance in Treatment of Combat PTSD. In E. C. Ritchie (Ed.), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans (pp. 27-34). New York: Springer.
- Spangler, P.T., West, J.C., Andrews-Shigaki, B., Possemato, K., McKenzie, S., Paxton, M., Tu, T., Engle, K., & Benedek, D.M. (Nov 2015) Riluzole for PTSD: Efficacy of a Glutamatergic Modulator as Augmentation Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Poster session at the meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, New Orleans, LA.
Stephen J Cozza, MD, Colonel, Army

Name: Stephen J Cozza, MD, Colonel, Army
Research Interests:
Impact of trauma on adults, children and families
Bereavement and complicated grief
Education
M.D., 1985 George Washington University School of Medicine and the Health Sciences, Washington DC
Transitional Internship, 1986 Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC
General Psychiatry Residency, 1989 Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, 1991 Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC
Biography
Dr. Cozza’s professional interests have been in the areas of clinical and community response to trauma and the impact of deployment and combat injury, illness and death on military service members, their families and their children. He was instrumental in organizing and executing the initial mental health response to the September 11th 2001 attack on the Pentagon. Under his leadership, the Walter Reed Department of Psychiatry spearheaded the initiative to provide mental health services, support and follow up to the many injured service members, their families and their children who receive medical treatment. Dr. Cozza has highlighted the impact of deployment, injury, illness and death on the children and families of military service members. He is published in the scientific literature and has presented on these topics at multiple national and international scientific meetings. Dr. Cozza serves as a scientific advisor to several national organizations that focus on the needs of military children and families.
Visit ResearchGate for a list of Dr. Cozza’s publications.
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- National Military Family Bereavement Study (www.militarysurvivorstudy.org)
- Stepping Forward in Grief, a study of a selective preventive Intervention to assist bereaved military family members (www.steppingforwardstudy.org)
- Grief Outcomes Related to Terrorism, a study of family members who lost loved ones due to 9- 11 or the Air India bombing in 1985
- FOCUS-CI, a study of a preventive intervention for children and family of combat injured service members
- Study of Risk and Protective Factors Contributing to Military Child Maltreatment/Child Neglect
- 2005 William C. Porter Award, American Military Surgeons of the United States of America
- 2011 International Society for the Study of Traumatic Stress Studies Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study
- 2007 American Psychiatric Association Bruno Lima Award for Excellence in Disaster Response Contributions
- 2003 Order of Military Medical Merit
- The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Distinguished Fellow
Bibliography
- Cozza, S.J., Fisher, J.E., Mauro, C., Zhou, J.,Ortiz, C.D., Skritskaya, N., Wall, M.M., Fullerton, C.S., Ursano, R.J. & Shear, M. K. (2016). Performance of DSM-5 Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder Criteria in a Community Sample of Bereaved Military Family Members. American Journal of Psychiatry, 173, 919-929.
- Cozza, S. J., Fisher, J.E., LaFlair, L., Zhou, J., LaMorie, J., Grein, K., Niemeyer, M., Benfer, N., Fullerton, C.S. & Ursano, R.J. (2017). Bereaved military dependent spouses and children: Those left behind in a decade of war (2001-2011). Military Medicine, 182(3):e1684-e1690.
- Cozza SJ, Ortiz CD, Fullerton CS, McCarroll JE, Holmes AK, Harris AM, Buckley CL, Ursano RJ: Types, subtypes and severity of substantiated child neglect in U.S. Army communities during wartime, Military Medicine 180(11), 2015, 1147-53.
- Cozza, S.J., Whaley, G.L., Fisher, J.E., Zhou, J., Ortiz, C.D., McCarroll, J.E., Fullerton, C. S. & Ursano, R.J (2017). Deployment Status and Child Neglect Types in the U.S. Army. Child Maltreatment, (Epub ahead of print).
- Cozza SJ, Guimond JM, McKibben JB, Chun RS, Arata-Maiers TL, Schneider B, Maiers A, Fullerton CS, Ursano RJ: Combat-injured service members and their families: The relationship of child distress and spouse-perceived family distress and disruption, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23(1) 2010, 112-5.
- Wadsworth SM, Lester P, Marini C, Cozza SJ, Sornborger J, Strouse T: Approaching family- focused systems of care for military and veteran families, Military Behavioral Health, 1 2013, 31-40.
- Cozza SJ, Lerner RM, (Ed.): Military Children and Families, The Future of Children, (monograph) Princeton-Brookings, Princeton NJ, 2013.
- Cozza SJ, Cohen JA, Dougherty J, (Ed.): Disaster and Trauma, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, (monograph) Elsevier, Philadelphia PA, in press 2014.
- Whaley GJ, Cohen WL, Cozza SJ: Children and families: responding to disaster and bereavement. chapter in Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press: New York 2017.
- Cozza SJ, Knobloch L, Gewirtz A, DeVoe E, Flake E, Gorman L, Kees M, Lester P, Lerner RM: Lessons learned and future recommendations for conducting research using primary data collection. Chapter in A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families: Lessons for the Leaders of Tomorrow (in press).
David M Benedek, M.D., Colonel, Army
Name: David M Benedek, M.D., Colonel, Army
Research Interests:
Traumatic Stress Response: Neurobiology, Epidemioogy and Intervention
Education
M.D. Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD 1991
Internship and Residency in Adult General Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC, 1995
Fellowship, Forensic Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC, 1998
Biography
Dr. Benedek received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1986 and his M.D. from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine in 1991. After Internship and Residency in Psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he was assigned as Division Psychiatrist, First Armor Division, Germany. From there, he deployed to the former Yugoslavia and delivered mental health support to U.S. and NATO Troops for Operation Joint Endeavor (1996). He returned to Walter Reed to complete forensic psychiatry fellowship training in 1998 and then served as the Assistant Chief of Inpatient Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 1999 he became Chief, Forensic Psychiatry Service, and Director, National Capital Consortium Military Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Walter Reed, and he remained in those positions until joining the USUHS/CSTS faculty in 2004. Dr. Benedek’s awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Meritorious Service (3OLC) and Army Commendation (3OLC) Medals, the LTG Claire Chennault Award for Outstanding Military Psychiatry Faculty Member, and the American Psychiatric Association’s Nancy C.A. Roeske Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education. In 2002 he received the U.S. Army Surgeon General’s “A” Proficiency Designator, and received the Order of Military Medical Merit in 2009
Dr. Benedek has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications, and has presented on numerous aspects of military, disaster, and forensic psychiatry at regional, national, and international professional conferences. He has served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Confidentiality, was a consultant to the Association’s Practice Guideline for the treatment of Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder work-group in the development of its 2004 practice guideline, and was also lead author on the 2009 guideline update. Dr. Benedek has led several ongoing clinical and epidemiological studies. He previously Directed the National Capital Area Integrated Clinical Study Site within the INTRuST Clinical Consortium for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury was the USUHS site lead investigator for the Soldier Health Outcomes Study-B (SHOS-B) arm of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (ARMY STARRS). Prior to his return to USU in 2017, he Directed the Center for Forensic Behavioral Sciences at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- 1998-1999 Assistant Chief, Inpatient Psychiatry Service, WRAMC, Washington DC
- 1999-2004 Chief, Forensic Psychiatry Service, WRAMC, Washington DC
- 2004-2008 Consultant to US Army Surgeon General for Forensic Psychiatry, Assistant Chair for Education, Dept. of Psychiatry, USUHS , Senior Scientist, CSTS
- 2008-2015 Proefessor (PSY) & Assoc. Director, CSTS, USUHS, Bethesda MD, Deputy Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry USUHS
- 2015-2017 Chief, Forensics and Director, Center for Forensic Behavioral Sciences, WRNMMC, Bethesda MD
- 2017-Professor & Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesday
- 2004-The US Army Surgeon General’s “A” Proficiency Designator; American Psychiatric Association Roeske Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education
- 2004-Council for International Cooperation Lieutenant General Claire L. Chennault Award for Outstanding Psychiatry Faculty Member, National Capital Consortium
- 2008 -Meritorious Service Medal (3rd OLC), 2009- Order of Military Medical Merit
- 2016-Defense Superior Service Medal
Bibliography
- Benedek DM, Morganstein JC, Holloway HH, Ursano RJ, “Disaster Psychiatry: Disasters, Terrorism and War,” in, Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, Ruiz PR, eds., Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10th ed., Wolters-Kluwer, Phildadelphia, 2017 pp. 2564-2576.
- Benedek DM and Wynn GH, “Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,” in Ursano RJ, Fullerton CS, Weisaeth L and Raphael B, eds., Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 2017, pp. 101-123.
- Benedek DM and Wynn GH: (eds) “Complementary and Alternative Medicine for PTSD” (TEXTBOOK)
- Benedek DM and Wynn GH: (eds), “Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD” Washington DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2010. (TEXTBOOK)
- Zhang L, Benedek DM, Fullerton CS, Forsten RD, Naifeh JA, Li XX, Hu XZ, Li H, Jia M, Xing GQ, Benevides KN and Ursano, RJ: “PTSD risk is associated with BDNF Val66Met and BDNF overexpression,” Molecular Psychiatry , 2014 Jan;19(1):8-10.
- Zhang L, Hu X-Z, Benedek DM, Fullerton CS, Forsten RD, Naifeh JA, Li X, Li H, Benevides KN, Smerin S, Le T, Choi K and Ursano RJ. The interaction between stressful life events and leukocyte telomere length is associated with PTSD. Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 5 November 2013; doi:10.1038/mp.2013.141.
- Benedek DM and Grieger TA, “Legal Issues in Psychiatric Practice” in Tasman A, Kay J, Lieberman J, First MB, and Maj M, eds., Psychiatry, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, (2015).
- Malone RD and Benedek DM, “Personality Disorders in the Military Operational Environment,” in Oldham J., ed., Textbook of Personality Disorders, American Psychiatric Publishing, Arlington VA (2014): 475-485.
- Lang AJ, Schnurr PP, Jain S, Raman R, Walser R, Bolton E, Chabot A, Benedek D: “Evaluating transdiagnostic treatment for distress and impairment in veterans: A multi-site randomized controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2012, 33(1), pp. 116 - 123
- Nock MK, Dempsey CL, Aliaga PA, Brent DA, Heeringa SG, Kessler RC, Stein MB, Ursano RJ, Benedek D, “psychological Autopsy StudyComparing Suicide Decedents, Suicide Ideators, and Propensity Score Matched Controls: Results from the Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service Members (Army STARRS), Psychological Medicine, 47(15), 2663-2774, November, 2017 (published online 18 May 2017);
Stanley E Smerin, Ph.D.

Name: Stanley E Smerin, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Neuropsychology
Neurophysiology
Education
B.A. Biology Stanford
Biography
Bibliography
- Tai C., Smerin S.E., de Groat W.C., Roppolo J.R. (2006) Pudendal-to-bladder reflex in chronic spinal-cord-injured cats. Experimental Neurology 197:225 – 234
- Koizumi H.*, Smerin S.E.*, Yamanishi T.*, Moorjani B.R., Zhang R., Smith J.C. (2010) TASK Channels Contribute to the K+- Dominated Leak Current Regulating Respiratory Rhythm Generation in Vitro. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(12):4273– 4284. * = Contributed equally.
- Zhang L., Li H., Hu X., Li X., Smerin S.E., Ursano R. (2011) Glucocorticoid-induced p11 over-expression and chromatin remodeling: A novel molecular mechanism of traumatic stress? Medical Hypotheses 76:774–777.
- Jia M., Meng F., Smerin S. E., Xing G., Zhang L., Su D. M., Li H. (2012) Biomarkers in an animal model for revealing neural, hematologic, and behavioral correlates of PTSD. J. Vis. Exp. (), e3361, DOI: 10.3791/3361
- Li H., Li X., Smerin S.E., Zhang L., Jia M., Xing G., Su Y.A., Wen J., Benedek D., Ursano R. (2014) Mitochondrial gene expression profiles and metabolic pathways in the amygdala associated with exaggerated fear in an animal model of PTSD. Frontiers in Neurology 5 (article 164): 1-15
- Jia M., Smerin S.E., Zhang L., Xing G., Li X., Benedek D., Ursano R., Li H. (2015) Corticosterone mitigates the stress response in an animal model of PTSD. Journal of Psychiatric Research 60:29-39.
- Zhang L., …, Smerin S.E. … (2015) Mitochondria-focused gene expression profile reveals common pathways and CPT1B dysregulation in both rodent stress model and human subjects with PTSD. Translational Psychiatry 5, e580; doi:10.1038/tp.2015.65.
- Smerin S.E. and Li H. (2017) Neurophysiology of Anger in PTSD. Society for Neuroscience poster and abstract
Edmund G. Howe, MD, JD
Name: Edmund G. Howe, MD, JD
Research Interests:
Ethics
Military Medical Ethics
Education
Biography
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- Director of Programs in Medical Ethics, Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, 1977- Present.
- Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Clinical Ethics, now almost 30 years old.
- Past and or present member the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center, and Malcolm Grow U.S. Air Force Medical Center Ethics Committees, Montgomery Hospice, the Visiting Nurse Association, Springfield Psychiatric Hospital, the V.A. Hospital of Washington, DC, and the National Institutes of Health.
- Chair of the human use Institutional Review Board (IRB) at USUHS (!0 years #).
- Chair of the human use Institutional Review Board at USU, and the Ethics Subcommittee of the Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces.
- Former Chair of the Ethics Subcommittee of the Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces.
- Past Chair of the International Health Law Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association.
- Past appointee to the Governor’s Commission of Health Care Policy and Financing for the State of Maryland.
- Past or present Liaison Member of the International Section of the American Bar Association and the Commissions on Mental and Physical Disability, and Bioethics.
- Consultant at NIH, OTA, HHS, FDA, the Institute of Medicine, the US Public Health Service, the National Science Foundation and NASA.
Bibliography
- Dr. Howe's research has focused on medical ethics with an emphasis on ethics in military medicine and clinical care at the end of life.
- Improving treatment for patients who are elderly and have dementia. Feb 2000. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- Helping infants by seeing the invisible. Feb 2001. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- Doing ethics consultations better. Feb 2000. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- International practices in neonatology. Feb 2001. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- Pediatricians' most difficult decision. Feb 2000. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- Leaving Laputa: What doctors aren't taught about informed consent. Feb 2000. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- Unicorns, Carravaggio, and fetal surgery. Feb 2001. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- Challenging patients' personal, cultural, and religious belief. Feb 2002. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- Health Care Rationing in the Aged. Jul 1999. Drugs & Aging.
Lei Zhang, M.D.
Name: Lei Zhang, M.D.
Research Interests:
Psychiatry
PTSD and biomarkers
Education
Biography
1. To identify gene networks or pathways of PTSD.
2. To investigate the novel molecular regulatory mechanism of stress and PTSD in vivo and in vitro. His research will provide useful information, which might help translational research, from bench to bed.
Bibliography
- Zhang L., Li H., Su T.P., Barker J.L., Maric D., Fullerton C.S., Webster M.J., Hough C.J., Li X., Traumatic Stress Brain Study Group and Ursano R.J. Post-traumatic stress disorder-associated p11 is up-regulated in the forebrain by glucocorticoid acting via two specific glucocorticoid response elements in the promoter, Neurosci., 2008,153:1126–1134
- Zhang L., Su T.ung-Ping Su, Choi K., Webster M.J., Li C.T., Chung M.Y. Chen Y.S., Bai Y.M., Chou Y. H., Barker J.L., Barrett J.E., Li X.X., Li H., Benedek D. M. and Ursano R. P11 (S100A10) as a potential biomarker of psychiatric patients at risk of suicide. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2011, 45, 435-441
- Su T., Zhang L., Chung M., Chen Y., Bi Y., Chou Y., Barker J., Barrett J.E., Maric D., Li X., Li H., Webster M., Benedek D., Carlton J. and Ursano R.J. Levels of the potential biomarker p11 in peripheral blood cells distinguish patients with PTSD from those with other major psychiatric disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2009. 43:1078-1085 (Corresponding author)
- Zhang, L., Tung-Ping Su, Kwang Choi, Webster Maree, Cheng-Ta Li, Ming-Yi Chung, Ying-Sheue Chen, Ya-Mei Bai, Yuan-Hwa Chou, Jeffery L. Barker, James E. Barrett, Xiao Xia Li, He Li, David M. Benedek, Robert Ursano. P11 expression and PET in bipolar disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2011, 1-6
- Zhang L., Xian-Zhang Hu, David M. Benedek, Carol S. Fullerton, Robert D. Forsten, James A. Naifeh, Xiaoxia Li, He Li, K. Nikki Benevides, Stanley Smerin, Thien Le, Kwang Choi & Robert J. Ursano. The interaction between stressful life events and leukocyte telomere length is associated with PTSD. Molecular Psychiatry, 2014,1-2
- Lei Zhang, He Li, Xianzhang Hu, David M. Benedek, Carol S. Fullerton, Robert D. Forsten, James A. Naifeh, Xiaoxia Li, Hongyan Wu, Kirster Benevides, Thien Le, Stanley Smerin, Dale W. Russell & Robert J. Ursano. Mitochondria-focused gene expression profile reveals common pathways and CPT1B dysregulation in both rodent stress model and human subjects with PTSD. Translational Psychiatry. (2015) 5, e580, 1-8, 2015
- Zhang L., DM Benedek, CS Fullerton, RD Forsten1, JA Naifeh, XX Li, XZ Hu, H Li, M Jia , GQ Xing, KN Benevides, & RJ Ursano. PTSD risk is associated with BDNF Val66Met and BDNF over-expression. Molecular Psychiatry 2014, 19, 8–10
- Lei Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, Xian-Zhang Hu. Post-traumatic stress disorder risk and brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met. World J Psychiatr. 2016, 6(1): 1-6.
Joscelyn E Fisher, PhD
Name: Joscelyn E Fisher, PhD
Biography
Dr. Fisher's research background has focused on how cognitive processes and emotion processes are related to symptom manifestation. One line of research at UIUC investigated the relationship of suspiciousness to anxiety and depression during emotional processing using event-related brain potential (ERP) techniques to index the neural correlates of these symptoms. She also used ERPs and fMRI at the MPRC to investigate semantic memory processes and whether they are associated with positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Thus, her research has focused on the investigation of neurocognitive and mental health symptom correlates of language, memory and emotion processes. Dr. Fisher is currently working on several projects that investigate correlates and predictors of depression, anxiety and grief outcomes in bereaved military family members as part of the NMFBS.
Dr. Fisher has authored/co-authored a number of scientific papers and has been awarded several research grants, including a National Research Service Award –NRSA from NIMH while at UIUC and a Young Investigator Award from NARSAD while at UMB.
Bibliography
Kathryn R Hefner, PhD
Name: Kathryn R Hefner, PhD
Research Interests:
PTSD, substance use and addiction, trauma, military and veteran health, comorbidity
Education
MS, Clinical Psychology - University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008
BA, Clinical and Social Psychology - University of Rochester, 2005
Biography
Dr. Hefner’s research background and clinical work with dually diagnosed individuals has shaped her focus the mechanisms (e.g., trauma, substance use, stress) that contribute to alterations in negative affective responses and decision-making. In addition, her recent work has focused on clinical epidemiology and multimorbidity associated with PTSD, which is known to co-occur with many additional psychiatric, substance use, medical, and other conditions. This work aims to identify underlying vulnerability factors and correlates associated with risk and resilience for PTSD. Currently, Dr. Hefner is working on several projects investigating correlates and predictors of negative affective outcomes (anxiety, depression, complicated grief, PTSD, etc.) among family members of deceased and injured military service members and victims of terrorism.
Dr. Hefner has authored and co-authored several scientific papers and has been awarded several research grants, including a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NIDA, as well as many awards for conference presentations and travel.
Bibliography
Brett Schneider, M.D., Colonel, Army
Name: Brett Schneider, M.D., Colonel, Army
Research Interests:
Suicide, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Development, Health Care Services
James A Naifeh, PhD

Name: James A Naifeh, PhD
Biography
Dr. Naifeh’s research aims to advance our understanding of mental health risk and resilience in military personnel through the identification of psychological, environmental, and neurobiological factors associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicide, and other adverse health outcomes. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and has served as an investigator on research projects funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Defense, and Department of the Army. Included among these is the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS), the largest epidemiological and neurobiological study of risk and resilience ever conducted in the U.S. military.
Bibliography
- Naifeh, J. A., Ursano, R. J., Benfer, N., Wu, H., Herman, M., Benedek, D. M., Russell, D. W., Benevides, K. N., Kao, T.-C., Ng, T. H. H., Aliaga, P. A., Wynn, G. H., Zhang, L., Forsten, R. D., & Fullerton, C. S. (2017). PTSD symptom severity and sensitivity to blood, injury, and mutilation in U.S. Army special operations soldiers. Psychiatry Research, 250, 78-83.
- Naifeh, J. A., Nock, M. K., Ursano, R. J., Vegella, P. L., Aliaga, P. A., Fullerton, C. S., Kessler, R. C., Wryter, C. L., Heeringa, S. G., & Stein, M. B. (2017). Neurocognitive function and suicide in U.S. Army soldiers. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 47(5), 589-602.
- Ursano, R. J., Kessler, R. C., Naifeh, J. A., Herberman Mash, H. B., Fullerton, C. S., Ng, T. H. H., Aliaga, P. A., Wynn, G. H., Dinh, H. M., McCarroll, J. E., Sampson, N. A., Kao, T.-C., Schoenbaum, M., Heeringa, S. G., & Stein, M. B. (2017). Suicide attempts in U.S. Army combat arms, special forces and combat medics. BMC Psychiatry, 17, 194.
- Naifeh, J. A., Colpe, L. J., Aliaga, P. A., Sampson, N. A., Heeringa, S. G., Stein, M. B., Ursano, R. J., Fullerton, C. S., Nock, M. K., Schoenbaum, M., Zaslavsky, A. M., & Kessler, R. C. (2016). Barriers to initiating and continuing mental health treatment among soldiers in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Military Medicine, 181(9), 1021-1032.
- Kessler, R. C., Warner, C. H., Ivany, C., Petukhova, M. V., Rose, S., Bromet, E. J., Brown III, M., Cai, T., Colpe, L. J., Cox, K. L., Fullerton, C. S., Gilman, S. E., Gruber, M. J., Heeringa, S. G., Lewandowski-Romps, L., Li, J., Millikan-Bell, A. M., Naifeh, J. A., Nock, M. K., Rosellini, A. J., Sampson, N. A., Schoenbaum, M., Stein, M. B., Wessely, S., Zaslavsky, A. M., & Ursano, R. J. (2015). Predicting suicides after psychiatric hospitalization in US Army soldiers: The Army Study to Assess Risk and
- Ursano, R. J., Kessler, R. C., Stein, M. B., Naifeh, J. A., Aliaga, P. A., Fullerton, C. S., Wynn, G. H., Vegella, P. L., Ng, T. H. H., Zhang, B. G., Wryter, C. L., Sampson, N. A., Kao, T.-C., Colpe, L. J., Schoenbaum, M., McCarroll, J. E., Cox, K. L., & Heeringa, S. G. (2016). Risk factors, methods, and timing of suicide attempts among U.S. Army soldiers. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(7), 741-749.
- Naifeh, J. A., Tull, M. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2012). Anxiety sensitivity, emotional avoidance, and PTSD symptom severity among crack/cocaine dependent patients in residential treatment. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 36, 247-257.
- Naifeh, J. A., Richardson, J. D., Del Ben, K. S., & Elhai, J. D. (2010). Heterogeneity in the latent structure of PTSD symptoms among Canadian veterans. Psychological Assessment, 22, 666-674.
- Naifeh, J. A., & Elhai, J. D. (2010). An experimental comparison of index traumatic event queries in PTSD assessment. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 155-160.
- Naifeh, J. A., Elhai, J. D., Kashdan, T. B., & Grubaugh, A. L. (2008). The PTSD Symptom Scale’s latent structure: An examination of trauma-exposed medical patients. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22, 1355-1368.
Robert J Ursano, M.D.

Name: Robert J Ursano, M.D.
Research Interests:
PTSD
Disaster Psychiatry
Education
M.D., Yale University, 1973
Psychiatry Resident, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, 1973-75
Postdoctoral Fellow (Psychiatry) Yale University & Yale
USAF Primary Course in Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base Texas, 1977
Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, 1980-1986 (graduated)
Biography
Dr. Ursano served as the Department of Defense representative to the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health and is a past member of the Veterans Affairs Mental Health Study Section and the National Institute of Mental Health Rapid Trauma and Disaster Grant Review Section. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.Dr. Ursano was the first Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster. This work greatly aided the integration of psychiatry and public health in times of disaster and terrorism. Dr. Ursano was an invited participant to the White House Mental Health Conference in 1999. He has received the Department of Defense Humanitarian Service Award and the highest award of the International Traumatic Stress Society, The Lifetime Achievement Award, for “outstanding and fundamental contributions to understanding traumatic stress.” He is the recipient of the William C. Porter Award from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and a frequent advisor on issues surrounding psychological response to trauma to the highest levels of the US Government and specifically to the Department of Defense leadership.
Dr. Ursano has served as a member of the National Academies of Science, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Psychological Responses to Terrorism, Committee on PTSD and Compensation and the Committee on Nuclear Preparedness; and the National Institute of Mental Health Task Force on Mental Health Surveillance After Terrorist Attack. In addition he is a member of scientific advisory boards to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control. In 2012, Dr. Ursano was awarded the William C. Menninger Memorial Award for distinguished contributions to the Science of Mental Health by the American College of Physicians. In 2014, Dr. Ursano and Dr. Matthew Friedman of the VA National Center for PTSD co-founded The Leahy-Friedman National PTSD Brain Banksupported through Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). It is the first human brain bank dedicated to PTSD. This joint effort of many people was a 12 year project developing concepts, pilot data and support. Dr. Ursano has more than 300 publications. He is co-author or editor of eight books.
Professional Honors and Recognition
2016 Joseph Tupin Visiting Professor and Invited Lectureship, University of California, Davis
2015 Pellegrino Lectureship, Eastern Virginia Medical University
2014 Uniformed Services University James J. Leonard Award for Excellence in Research
2012 American College of Physicians: William C Menninger Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Mental Health
2008-11 Appointed Mental Health Advisory Subcommittee, National Bioterrorism Science Advisory Board, to Secretary of Health and Human Services
2008-11 Appointed Board of Scientific Counselors, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (name changed to Office of Public Health Readiness), CDC, Department of Health and Human Services
2009 AAP Presidential Citation for Contributions to Psychiatric Education, Association of Academic Psychiatry
Representative Biography of over 400 publications
1. Disaster Medicine. Since its inception in 1987, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) has developed research, training, and consultation programs to mitigate the impact of trauma from exposure to war, disasters, terrorism, community violence, and public health threats. The CSTS has helped to define and advance the integration of disaster psychiatry and military psychiatry. CSTS has been involved in nearly every major disaster our nation has experienced in the past nearly 30 years.
a) Ursano, R. J., Fullerton, C. S., Weisaeth, L., & Raphael, B. (Eds.). (2017). Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry (2nd Ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316481424
b) Fullerton, C. S., Mash, H. B. H., Benevides, K. N., Morganstein, J. C., & Ursano, R. J. (2015). Distress of routine activities and perceived safety associated with post-traumatic stress, depression, and alcohol use: 2002 Washington, D.C, Sniper Attacks. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 9(5), 509-515. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2015.67
c) Fullerton, C. S., McKibben, J. B. A., Reissman, D. B., Scharf, T., Kowalski-Trakofler, K. M., Shultz, J. M., & Ursano, R. J. (2013). Posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, alcohol and tobacco use in public health workers following the 2004 Florida hurricanes. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 7(1), 89-95. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2013.6
d) Grieger, T. A., Fullerton, C. S., & Ursano, R. J. (2003). Posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, alcohol use, and perceived safety thirteen months following the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Psychiatric Services, 54(10), 1380-1383.
2. Risk and protective factors for psychological and behavioral outcomes following traumatic events. Studies examining military and civilian populations exposed to traumatic events has led to research that seeks to identify risk factors for adverse psychological and behavioral outcomes, including posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms, problematic alcohol use, and suicidal behaviors, as well as protective factors that promote resilience following trauma exposure.
a) Ursano, R. J., Kessler, R. C., Naifeh, J. A., Herberman Mash, H., Fullerton, C. S., Bliese, P. D., Zaslavsky, A. M., Ng, T. H. H., Aliaga, P. A., Wynn, G. H., Dinh, H. M., McCarroll, J. E., Sampson, N. A., Kao, T. C., Schoenbaum, M., Heeringa, S. G., & Stein, M. B. (2017). Risk of suicide attempt among Soldiers in Army units with a history of suicide attempts. JAMA Psychiatry. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.1925
b) Ursano, R. J., Kessler, R. C., Stein, M. B., Naifeh, J. A., Aliago P. A., Fullerton, C. S., Wynn, G. H., Vegella P. L., Ng, T., Zhang, B. G., Wryter, C. L., Sampson N. A., Kao, T. C., Colpe, L. J., Schoenbaum, M., McCarroll J. E., Cox, K. L., & Heeringa, S., & on behalf of the Army STARRS collaborators (2016). Deployment, mental health, and suicide attempts among U.S. Army soldiers: Risk factors, methods, and time, JAMA Psychiatry, 73(7), 741-749. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0600
c) Fink, D. S., Lowe, S., Cohen, G. H., Sampson, L. A., Ursano, R. J., Gifford, R. K., Fullerton, C. S., & Galea, S. (2016). Trajectories of posttraumatic stress symptoms after civilian or deployment traumatic event experiences. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 9(2), 138-146. doi: 10.1037/tra0000147
d) Campbell-Sills, L, Ursano, R. J., Kessler, R. C., Sun, X., Heeringa, S. G., Nock, M. K., Sampson, N.A., Jain, S., and Stein, M.B. (in press). Prospective risk factors for post-deployment heavy drinking and alcohol or substance use disorder among U.S. Army soldiers. Psychological Medicine.
3. Identifying biomarkers for posttraumatic stress disorder. Our study of the neuroscience and neurobiology of stress and trauma has translated into health care applications for military and civilian populations, with a specific focus on posttraumatic stress disorder, mild traumatic brain injury, and suicide and suicide-related behaviors. Recent research has focused on genetic biomarkers, cortisol levels, and telomere length. Biomarker research has involved the purification of DNA from saliva samples and blood samples collected from Soldiers, and genotyping the DNA for several target genes including BDNF and FKBP5.
a) Stein, M. B., Chen, C.-Y., Ursano, R. J., Cai, T., Gelernter, J., Heeringa, S. G., Jain, S., Jensen, K. P., Maihofer, A. X., Mitchell, C., Nievergelt, C. M., Nock, M. K., Neale, B. M., Polimanti, R., Ripke, S., Sun, X., Thomas, M. L., Wang, Q., Ware, E. B., Borja, S., Kessler, R. C., & Smoller, J. W. (2016). Genome-wide Association Studies of posttraumatic stress disorder in 2 cohorts of U.S. Army Soldiers. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(7), 695-704. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0350.
b) Zhang, L., Hu, X. Z., Benedek, D. M., Fullerton, C. S., Forsten, R. D., Naifeh, J. A., Li, X., Li, H., Benevides, K. N., Smerin, S., Le, T., Choi, K., & Ursano, R. J. (2014). The interaction between stressful life events and leukocyte telomere length is associated with PTSD. Molecular Psychiatry, 19(8), 855-856. doi: 10.1038/mp.2013.14
c) Choi, K., Le, T., Xing, G., Johnson, L. R., & Ursano, R. J. (2011). Analysis of kinase gene expression in the frontal cortex of suicide victims: Implications of fear and stress. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 46. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00046
d) Zhang, L., Su, T. P., Choi, K., Webster, M., Li, C. T., Chung, M. Y., Chen, Y. S., Bai, Y., Chou, Y., Barker, J., Barrett, J. E., Li, X., H., Benedek, D. M., & Ursano, R. J. (2011). P11 (S100A10) as a potential biomarker of psychiatric patients at risk of suicide. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 45(4), 435-441. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.08.01
4. Translating empirical findings to recommendations for intervention. CSTS laboratory and clinical research actively identifies effective interventions for trauma and stress-related disorders and suicidal behaviors.
a) Ursano, R. J., Goldenberg, M., Zhang, L., Carlton, J., Fullerton, C. S., Li, H., Johnson, L., & Benedek, D. M. (2010). Posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic stress: From bench to bedside, from war to disaster. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1208, 72-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05721.x
b) Forbes, D., Creamer, M., Bisson, J., Cohen, J., Crow, B., Foa, E., Friedman, M., Keane, T., Kudler, H., & Ursano, R. J. (2010). A guide to guidelines for the treatment of PTSD and related conditions. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23(5), 537-562. doi: 10.1002/jts.20565
c) Benedek, D. M. & Ursano, R. J. (2009). Understanding PTSD: From phenomenology to clinical practice. Focus, 7(2), 160-175.
d) Ursano, R. J., Zhang, L., Li, H., Johnson, L., Carlton, J., Fullerton, C. S. & Benedek, D. M. (2009). PTSD and traumatic stress from gene to community and bench to bedside. Brain Research, 1293, 2-12.
5. Suicidal behaviors and predictive modeling. Army STARRS (2009-2015) and STARRS-LS (2014-2019) were designed to comprehensively examine the mental health and resilience of Soldiers, and is the largest research study ever conducted among military personnel. One of the studies was an historical cohort study of more than 1.6 million Soldiers on active duty from 2004-2009. The Army STARRS/STARRS-LS research includes questionnaires, neurocognitive tests, blood collection, state-of-the-art genetic and other biomarker assays, and linking these data to existing Army/DoD records, producing large and risk datasets to serve the goals of the study as well as broader goals involving other mental health outcomes.
a). Kessler, R. C., Stein, M. B., Petukhova, M. V., Bliese, P., Bossarte, R. M., Bromet, E. J., Fullerton, C. S., Gilman, S. E., Ivany, C., Lewandowski-Romps, L., Bell, A. M., Naifeh, J. A., Nock, M. K., Reis, B. Y., Rosellini, A. J., Sampson, N. A., Zaslavsky, A. M., Ursano, R. J., & Army STARRS Collaborators (2017). Predicting suicides after outpatient mental health visits in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Molecular Psychiatry, 22(4), 544-551. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.110
b) Ursano, R. J., Kessler, R. C., Stein, M. B., Naifeh, J. A., Nock, M. K., Aliaga, P. A., Fullerton, C. S., Wynn, G. H., Ng, T. H. H., Dinh, H. M., Sampson, N. A., Kao, T. C., Schoenbaum, M., McCarroll, J. E., Cox, K. L., & Heeringa, S. G., on behalf of the Army STARRS collaborators (2016). Medically documented suicide ideation among U.S. Army Soldiers. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior. doi: 10.1111/stlb.12316
c) Ursano, R. J., Kessler, R. C., Herringa, S. G., Cox, K. L., Naifeh, J. A., Fullerton, C. S., Sampson, N. A., Kao, T., Aliaga, P. A., Vegella, P. A., Mash, H., Buckley, C., Colpe, L. J., Schoenbaum, M., & Stein, M. B. (2015). Non-fatal suicidal behaviors in U.S. Army administrative records, 2004-2009: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Psychiatry, 78(1), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/00332747.2015.1006512
d) Nock, M. K., Stein, M. B., Heeringa, S. G., Ursano, R. J., Colpe, L. J., Fullerton, C. S., Hwang, I., Naifeh, J. A., Sampson, N. A., Schoenbaum, M., Zaslavsky, A. M., & Kessler, R. C. (2014). Prevalence and correlates of suicidal behavior among soldiers: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). JAMA Psychiatry, 71(5), 514-522.
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- see biography below
David Mears, Ph.D.

Name: David Mears, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Neuroscience
Medical Education
Education
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 1989
Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments
- Chair, Council of Module Directors, USU School of Medicine, 2017-
- Dean's Faculty Teaching Award, USU School of Medicine, 2016
- Outstanding Civilian Educator Award, USU School of Medicine, 2013
Bibliography
- Mears D, Pollard HB. Network science and the human brain: using graph theory to understand the brain and one of its hubs, the amygdala, in health and disease. J. Neurosci. Res. 94(6):590-605, 2016
- Llanos P, Valencia M, Barrientos G, Hidalgo C, Mears D. Glucose-dependent insulin secretion in pancreatic β-cells requires Ca2+ signals generated by redox stimulation of ryanodine receptors. PLOS 1 10(6): e0129238. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129238, 2015
- Mears D, Zimliki CL, Atwater I, RojasE, Glassman M, Leighton X, Pollard HB, Srivastava M. The Anx7(+/-) knockout mutation alters electrical and secretory responses to Ca2+-mobilizing agents in pancreatic β-cells. Cell Physiol. Biochem 29:697-704, 2012.
- Verma R, Xu X, Jaiswal MK, Olsen C, Mears D, Caretti G, Galdzicki Z. In vitro profiling of epigenetic modifications underlying heavy metal toxicity of tungsten-alloy and its components. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 253:178-87, 2011.
- Contreras-Ferrat AE, Toro B, Bravo R, Parra V, Vásquez C, Ibarra C, Mears D, Chiong M, Jaimovich E, Klip A, Lavandero S. An inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) receptor pathway is required for insulin-stimulated glucose transporter 4 translocation and glucose uptake in cardiomyocytes. Endocrinology 151:4665-77, 2010.
- Atwater I, Guajardo M, Caviedes P, Jeffs S, Parrau D, Valencia M, Romero C, Arriagada C, Caamaño E, Salas A, Olguin F, Atlagich M, Maas R, Mears D, Rojas E. Isolation of viable porcine islets by selective osmotic shock without enzymatic digestion. Transplant Proc. 42:381-6, 2010.
PSY - Administrative Staff
Nidia Y Alvarez
Name: Nidia Y Alvarez
KEIATTA J TURNER, Technical Sergeant, Air Force
Name: KEIATTA J TURNER, Technical Sergeant, Air Force
Lia Collen
Name: Lia Collen