Dr. Robert J. Ursano

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  Robert J. Ursano, M.D.
  
  Robert J. Ursano, M.D., is a professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS).Dr. Ursano is widely published in the areas of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and public health planning for the psychological effects of terrorism, bioterrorism, traumatic events and disasters, including war.
  
  Dr. Ursano has more than 300 publications, is the co-author or editor of eight books, is editor of the journal Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes and senior editor of the first Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press).Dr. Ursano was the first chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster.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."

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  Robert Ursano, MD, Chair, Department of Psychiatry of the Uniformed Services University, delivered a talk on the psychiatric problems and disorders of military personnel and their families during times of deployment to Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas.

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  Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry edited by Robert Ursano, Carol Fullerton, Lars Weisaeth and Beverley Raphael and published by Cambridge University Press is now available
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  Dr Ursano will be a Distinguished Lecturer at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Washington D.C (May 3-8)

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  Robert Ursano, M.D., on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Treatment Across Pharmacology, Psychotherapy, and Collaborative Care

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  "However, it is the nature of the deployment experience-the 'toxic' exposures-including traumatic events, loss of attachments, and psychological and physical demands that increase the risk of mental illness," wrote Robert Ursano, M.D., a professor; David Benedek, M.D., an associate professor; and Charles Engel, M.D., an associate professor at Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, part of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

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  "She heads up not only the Army ... but also the DoD initiatives on posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury and other psychological consequences of war for military members and their families," one of her mentors, Robert Ursano, M.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., told Psychiatric News.
  
  The one-star general is to bring together under one umbrella the DoD's scattered and complex mental health care system to benefit all the branches of service; to seek ways to increase the system's manpower; and to establish quality standards for research, clinical care, education, training, prevention programs, and outreach to patients, families, and communities.
  
  "She has been asked to do that in one year of time," noted Ursano.

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  Dr. Robert Ursano, director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and a pioneer in bringing psychology to military health and disaster recovery, agreed.
  
  "Most epidemiological studies have found higher rates of PTSD in women than in men," Dr. Ursano explained.

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  Imagine if the governor of your state focused every day on mental illness, Robert Ursano, M.D., suggested to his audience at APA's 2009 annual meeting last month in San Francisco. The thought alone is so unlikely that it sounds shocking, but that is what the top ranks of U.S. armed services are doing now.
  
  "Never before in our history has there been such leadership concern as now in the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs," said Ursano, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., and director of its Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress.
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  Stigma may be the biggest problem in the realm of military mental health, said Ursano, in summing up the session.
  
  "In mental health we don't have a common cold," he said. "Everythingis perceived as a major illness, but not all of our illnesses are cancer. We need care across the whole spectrum of our diseases."
  
  Finally, diagnostic standards for the psychiatric disorder most commonly associated with war, PTSD, will have to be rethought in the light of actual military experience, said Ursano.
  
  "The A2 criterion for PTSD will have to be addressed," he said, echoingother speakers at the session.

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  Edited by Robert J. Ursano, M.D., and Ann E. Norwood, M.D.

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  All are affected by loneliness and uncertainty when their loved ones are sent off to war and by constant media reminders of the danger they face while away, said Robert Ursano, M.D., chair of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md. "They are at risk at all points in the deployment cycle—before, during, and after their time in a war zone and again when they return to the fighting."
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  Ursano and Cozza spoke at a conference on traumatic spectrum disorders held on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda in October.

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