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Two researchers from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine were recently honored for their work in the treatment of war-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the Trauma Recovery Center at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Denise M. Sloan, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the school and senior psychologist clinician investigator, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System, along with Brian P. Marx, PhD, professor of psychiatry and a deputy director at the National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, have been working with clinicians in Israel to help survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. They have helped train Trauma Recovery Center staff to deliver a brief treatment called Written Exposure Therapy (WET) that they developed.