Lynda A. King, PhD received a PhD in Measurement, Research Design, and Statistics (1979) from the University of Washington in Seattle. From 1979-95, Dr. King was a member of the Psychology Faculty at Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She is currently a Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Boston University and is affiliated with the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC) at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. King has expertise in psychometric theory and techniques and is an author of several published measurement instruments, including the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale, a well-regarded gender-role attitudes scale. She has an extensive program of research related to stress and trauma, with emphasis on risk and resilience factors for war-related stress symptomatology, military peacekeeping duties, and gender-related conflict. Along with Dr. Daniel King, she has directed a number of funded projects, including a study of factors contributing to domestic violence among Vietnam veteran families, a health services project to document dimensions of gender awareness (ideology, sensitivity, and knowledge) in the delivery of health care to women, and the documentation of late-onset stress symptomatology among aging military veterans.

Daniel W. King, PhD received a PhD in Measurement, Research Design, and Statistics (1975) from the University of Washington in Seattle. Following two years as Faculty Research Associate at the University of Washington Health Sciences Division, Dr. King served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (1978-95). He is currently a Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Boston University and affiliated with the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC) at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. King has broad expertise in research design and methodology, statistics, and psychometric theory. Along with Dr. Lynda King, he has published investigations of the psychometric properties of widely used measures of PTSD and combat exposure, and his work has served as a model for the development of new instruments in the field of traumatic stress. His most recent research efforts have involved studies of the etiology of war-related stress reactions among male and female Gulf War and Vietnam veterans, the long-term positive life adjustment of Vietnam veterans, and the psychological and physical health of repatriated prisoners of war from the Vietnam era.

Dean Lauterbach, PhD earned his baccalaureate degree from the University of Wisconsin and his advanced degrees from Purdue University. Following completion of his clinical internship he accepted a faculty position at Northwestern State University (NSU). He remained at NSU from 1995 to 2001and during this time his research focused primarily on risk and resilience factors among college-age trauma victims and instrument development/validation. In 2001 Dr. Lauterbach accepted a position as a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Eastern Michigan University. He has continued his work on risk and resilience factors but has also expanded his interests to include the impact of childhood trauma victim’s relationships with their own children later in life. In 2006 Dr. Lauterbach co-edited a book titled Handbook of Exposure Therapies. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, research design, psychopathology, and psychotherapy.

Patrick A. Palmieri, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the Research Coordinator of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress, a joint program between Summa Health System and Kent State University. He also is an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at Kent State University and an assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1994) and his M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2002) in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on an NIMH Training Program in Quantitative Methods in Behavioral Research (2002-2004). His research interests are primarily in the area of traumatic stress, focusing on the measurement and conceptualization of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the potential moderators and mediators of the relationship between trauma exposure and PTSD, and the evaluation of psychological interventions for PTSD. He is currently an Investigator on an NIMH-funded longitudinal study of 1) the psychological impact of exposure to terrorism, 2) the trajectory of change in psychological outcomes over time, and 3) the time-invariant and time-varying predictors of change in psychological outcomes.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center provide administrative support and Experient, Inc., provides meeting planning and logistical support to CITRM.

For more information, contact Lauren McSweeney at: Lauren.McSweeney@va.gov.