Rachel Yehuda, PhD

Rachel Yehuda is Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She is an active researcher in the field of posttraumatic stress and has authored more than 150 articles and edited several books on this topic. She has numerous professional memberships such as the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and International Society for Traumatic Stress, and has served on many scientific advisory and journal editorial boards. Dr. Yehuda served as a delegate for the White House Conference on Mental Health in 1999 and was recognized in the Congressional Record for her work with Holocaust survivors. Dr. Yehuda is one of four Executive Directors on the New York Times Consortium for Trauma Treatment, founded in response to the World Trade Center Disaster in New York.

Dr. Yehuda received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Neurochemistry and her M.S. in Biological Psychology form the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and completed her postdoctoral training in Biological Psychiatry in the Psychiatry Department at Yale Medical School.