Sonja V. Batten, Ph.D.

Sonja V. Batten, Ph.D., has been hired as the associate director of Women’s Health Research at Yale. Batten has demonstrated talents in research, clinical work, supervisory responsibilities and educational outreach efforts. Her primary interest is the effect of traumatic events on women’s psychological and physical health. Batten earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno, and interned at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Boston.