Robert H. Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and public health, is recipient of the 2022 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association.
The award recognizes distinguished contributions to scientific research in trauma psychology and is given in recognition of a particular discovery or for a sustained body of research and scholarship.
Pietrzak, who directs the Translational Psychiatric Epidemiology Laboratory of the Clinical Neurosciences Division of the National Center for PTSD, has published more than 300 articles on the psychosocial and genetic epidemiology of trauma-related disorders, military and veteran mental health, and resilience and posttraumatic growth.