Terence M. Keane, PhD

Dr. Terence M. Keane is the Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development Service, VA Boston Healthcare System and professor and vice-chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Keane is recognized as a world leader in the field of traumatic stress and has developed many of the most widely used PTSD assessment measures and is considered an authority on the cognitive behavioral treatment of PTSD. Dr. Keane has participated in many scientific review panels and was co-chair of the National Institute of Mental Health Consensus Conference that established national standards for the diagnosis and assessment of PTSD. His research has been continuously funded for 30 years and he's published nearly 200 books, papers, and chapters. He is a past president of ISTSS and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, and he has received many awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, Binghamton University's Weisband Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy's Outstanding Researcher Award, the Robert J. Laufer Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (1997) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2004) from the ISTSS.