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<b>To:</b> Jessica Cronce <jcronce@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Free Live Webinar on Wednesday, April 28, 2021: VA and DOD Career Pathways Part 1: Research-Focused Careers<o:p></o:p></p>
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professionals such as psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. In fact, VA and DoD are the single largest employers of psychologists, and the DoD currently identifies psychologists and social workers as its top two “mission critical occupations.”
Mental health professionals throughout the VA and DoD systems deliver mental health care, conduct research spanning the translational science continuum, manage numerous national programs, and educate future generations of VA/DoD clinicians, investigators,
and leaders. Yet despite the diverse array of Military and Veteran mental health careers paths, relatively few mental health trainees engage with the VA/DoD systems early in training (e.g., during graduate school).
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is the first in a multi-part professional development series highlighting VA and DoD mental health-related career paths. This session’s panel showcases investigators conducting VA- and DoD-funded research of direct relevance to military Veterans’ and Service
members’ mental health. In addition to describing their career trajectories, expert panelists will describe research questions and methodologies suitable to various systems, the advantages and challenges of conducting mental health research within a federal
government system, recommendations they have for trainees considering VA/DoD career paths, and more. There will be ample opportunity for attendee participation in addition to moderated Q&A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">a professor and vice chair of Veterans Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Executive Director of the UTHealth Trauma and Resilience Center (TRC).
He has two related but distinct research foci: (1) epidemiological studies of elder mistreatment and (2) treatment outcome studies focusing on victims of trauma, disaster, combat, and loss, with an emphasis on PTSD treatment in Veterans. He has served as Principal
Investigator on grants from the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as from NIA, NIMH, NIJ, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, the Archstone Foundation, and the Retirement Research Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">is a Health Services Researcher in the Center for Care Delivery & Outcomes Research (CCDOR) at the Minneapolis VA, an Investigator with the Women’s Health Sciences Division
of the National Center for PTSD, and an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her research program focuses on the clinical effectiveness and implementation of psychotherapies for PTSD, the impact of substance use disorders on PTSD-related treatment
and functioning, and treatment seeking and access. Her work has been supported by the VA Office of Research & Development, among other agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Keren Lehavot, PhD
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">is a Core Investigator with VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University
of Washington. She is a clinical psychologist by training and provides clinical care in the PTSD Outpatient Clinic at VA Puget Sound Health Care System. Her research, which has been funded by the VA Office of Research & Development, focuses on health disparities
for vulnerable populations, LGBT issues, risk factors and consequences of trauma, and targeted treatments for women Veterans with mental health concerns.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">is a clinical health psychologist, division head (Leidos contractor) of the Veteran & Active Duty Longitudinal Outcomes Research (VALOR) Division, and Co-PI of the Wounded
Warrior Recovery Project (WWRP) at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego. Broadly, her clinical and research efforts have focused on the complex relationships between co-occurring mental and physical health problems, and optimizing clinical prevention
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