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Robert Pietrzak is a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) at Yale School of Public Health. He directs the Translational Psychiatric Epidemiology Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. His research integrates genetic epidemiology, neuropsychology, and population health to study traumatic stress, resilience, and PTSD across the lifespan. He leads federally funded projects, including the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study and NIH/NIOSH investigations on World Trade Center responders.
Research Focus: Pietrzak's work examines dimensional models of stress-related psychopathology, psychosocial/genetic predictors of resilience, and stress-induced cognitive changes. His recent studies leverage neuroimaging (e.g., [11C]UCB-J PET) to investigate synaptic density in mood disorders and pain perception. Additional interests include moral injury in military populations and transdiagnostic approaches to trauma.
Awards:
- Outstanding Contributions to Trauma Psychology (APA, 2022)
- Paul Wender Best Paper Award (ASCP, 2022)
- Nelson Butters Award for Neuropsychological Research (NAN, 2016)
- Early Career Contribution Award (APA Trauma Division, 2015)
Grants & Leadership: He oversees the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study (NCPTSD-funded) and CDC/NIOSH studies on World Trade Center responders. As lab director, he mentors researchers in translational psychiatric epidemiology and collaborates with Yale's Clinical Neurosciences Division.
