PTSD Subcommittee Bios

Richard Mayeux, M.D., M.Sc. (Chair)

Richard Mayeux, M.D., M.Sc. is the Director of the Sergievsky Center and Co-Director of the Taub Institute at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His research interests include depression, aging, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease. He has conducted research on the epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease and on the influence of environmental factors in that disease. Dr. Mayeux received his M.D. from Oklahoma University School of Medicine. He has previously served on the IOM Committees on Gulf War and Health: Review of the Literature on Pesticides and Solvents; Selected Environmental Particulates, Pollutants, and Synthetic Chemical Compounds; and Updated Literature Review of Sarin. Dr. Mayeux is an IOM member.

Kathryn Karusaitis Basham, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Kathryn Karusaitis Basham, Ph.D., M.S.W. is Professor and Chair of the Human Behavior in the Social Environment sequence at the Smith College School for Social Work. She received her Masters degree in social work from the University of California at Berkeley and her doctorate from the Smith College School for Social Work. Her text (co-authored with D. Miehls) is titled Transforming the legacies: Couple therapy with survivors of childhood trauma and has been published recently by Columbia University Press. The text presents a synthesis of social and psychological theories that ground an innovative couple/family therapy practice model. As a scholar-practitioner, Dr. Basham has presented her couple/family therapy practice model for trauma survivors on numerous occasions, both nationally and internationally. Current areas of research include: couple and family therapy practice approaches with trauma survivors; ethics and clinical social work practice; divorce research; and the interface of anti-racism and cultural diversity with pedagogy. Throughout the past thirty years, she has engaged in direct clinical practice in a range of mental health settings in Washington, D.C., Colorado and Massachusetts, where she currently maintains a private practice in clinical social work.

Dennis Charney, M.D.

Dennis Charney, M.D. is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor, Dean of Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, and Neuroscience. He was formerly Chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Research Program and the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology branch at the National Institute of Mental Health. His research interests are in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Charney is an IOM member.

Michael Davis, Ph.D.

Michael Davis, Ph.D. is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. His research interests include the neurobiology of learning and memory using the fear-potentiated startle effect in rats, mice, monkeys and humans. He studies the effects of stress on behavior with special emphasis on neuropeptides, neurotramsmitters and second messenger systems in the extended amygdala in fear, anxiety and extinction. Dr. Davis received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Yale University.

Dwight Evans, M.D.

Dwight Evans, M.D. is Ruth Meltzer Professor, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Evans' research and clinical interests include psychopharmacology, the treatment and study of mood disorders, and psychosomatic medicine. He received his M.D. from Temple University School of Medicine.

Jack Gorman, M.D.

Jack Gorman, M.D. is the President and Psychiatrist in Chief, McLean Hospital Chair, Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School McLean Hospital. Dr. Gorman's research interests include the neurobiology and treatment of schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorders. He is an expert on psychiatric medications. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Janice Krupnick, Ph.D.

Janice Krupnick, Ph.D. is a Professor and Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University. Her current work includes testing new group treatments for poor and minority women who have PTSD related to interpersonal violence. She has previously served on the IOM Committee on Gulf War and Health: Health Effects Associated with Exposure During the Persian Gulf War.

Bruce McEwen, Ph.D.

Bruce McEwen, Ph.D. is Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University. He has produced a large body of work on the roles of steroid hormones in reproductive behavior, brain development, gene expression in the brain, brain plasticity in adulthood, and on effects of stress on cognitive deficits from age-related brain degeneration. He received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Rockefeller University. Dr. McEwen was a member of the Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health and has served on numerous IOM committees, most recently on the U.S. National Committee for the International Brain Research Organization. He is a member of the IOM and the NAS.

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum M.D.

Dr. Jerrold F. Rosenbaum is the Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  His research interests include depression, anxiety disorders, and psychopathology.  Dr. Rosenbaum is also the President and Executive Director of the MGH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Institute.  Dr. Rosenbaum received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine.