UTSA and UT Health Science Center present Sept. 23 Iecture on PTSD

Alan Peterson

By Jaclyn Shaw
Assistant Director for Faculty Development, Office of Research Development

(Sept. 17, 2014) -- UTSA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio will present the lecture, "It's All About the Blast: PTSD and TBI After Combat Blast Explosions." The event will be 4-5 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 23 in the John Peace Library Assembly Room (4.04.22) on the UTSA Main Campus. The lecture, featuring Dr. Alan Peterson, is free and open to the public.

"It's All About the Blast" is the first lecture in the UTSA and UT Health Science Center joint SALSI Lecture Series supported by the San Antonio Life Science Institute.

Blast explosions are the primary cause of illness and death in military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. They also are the primary cause of traumatic burns and amputations, combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Peterson will explore the symptoms, cause and factors contributing to combat-related PTSD and TBI after blast exposure. He also will describe the research opportunities underway at UTSA and the UT Health Science Center to examine the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention and treatment of PTSD and TBI in military service members and veterans.

Peterson is a professor in the UTSA Department of Psychology and is jointly appointed as a professor of psychiatry in the UT Health Science Center School of Medicine, where he is the director of the STRONG STAR Consortium and director of the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD.

STRONG STAR and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD are national research consortia funded by the U.S. departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to develop and evaluate the most effective early interventions possible for the detection, prevention, diagnoses and treatment of PTSD and related conditions in active duty military personnel and recently discharged veterans.

Under the leadership of the UT Health Science Center, the consortia bring together the expertise of more than 125 investigators at more than 20 partnering military, VA and civilian institutions, all working together to help our nation's war heroes recover from their psychological wounds.

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To register for the Sept. 23 lecture, visit SALSI Lecture Series website. For more information, contact Jaclyn Shaw at 210-458-6767.

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