Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH has been selected to receive the 2015 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Trauma Psychology by an Early Career Psychologist from Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Pietrzak is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Translational Psychiatric Epidemiology Laboratory of the Clinical Neurosciences Division of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD.
The award, which recognizes early career psychologists who have shown outstanding achievement in the study of psychological trauma, will be presented to Pietrzak during APA’s annual convention in Toronto.
Pietrzak’s research focuses on the epidemiology of traumatic stress and resilience across the lifespan, dimensional models of trauma-related psychopathology, and the effect of stress on cognition. His recent work has examined a broad range of topics related to civilian and military trauma, including the epidemiology of partial and full PTSD; dimensional structure and neurobiological correlates of trauma-related psychopathology; protective effects of psychological resilience and social support; and posttraumatic growth.