Patrick A. Palmieri

Patrick A. Palmieri is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University and serves as Chief Psychologist at Summa Health's Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Traumatic Stress Center at Summa Health. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002). His clinical work focuses on mood/anxiety disorders, PTSD, trauma-related psychopathology, and sleep problems, with a strong emphasis on cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches. He actively supervises psychology graduate students and psychiatry residents.

Research interests include trauma/PTSD mechanisms, quantitative methods (structural equation modeling and item response theory), and assessment/treatment efficacy. Notable contributions include studies on pediatric trauma, resilience during terrorism, and PTSD factor structure variability across populations. He has published extensively in journals like Journal of Traumatic Stress and Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

His work integrates clinical practice with rigorous research, addressing both individual and population-level mental health challenges in high-stress environments, including terrorism-affected regions and disaster response contexts.