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Patricia A. Resick, ABPP, Ph.D.

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Duke University Medical Center
Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Patricia A. Resick, Ph.D., ABPP is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke Health and Adjunct Professor, Medical University of South Carolina. After graduating with her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Georgia, Dr. Resick served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota. She also served as Associate to Full Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and was awarded an endowed professorship, Curator’s Professor in 2000. During that period, she also founded and was the first Director of the Center for Trauma Recovery. In 2003, Dr. Resick became the Director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University. In 2013, she moved to Duke University. Dr. Resick’s specialty is in understanding and treating the effects of traumatic events, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 1988, she developed Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD, a brief evidence-based treatment and has overseen multiple clinical trials. The treatment manual for CPT has been translated into 12 languages and has been formally disseminated throughout the Department of Veterans Affairs in the US, Canada and Australia, and now the Democratic Republic of Congo. CPT is considered a first line therapy for PTSD. Dr. Resick’s research has been continuously funded for 40 years; she has published over 350 articles and chapters and 11 books on PTSD. She has served as the President of both the International Society for Traumatic Stress and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She has won research and mentoring awards, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Trauma Division (56) of the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

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