Dr. Ursano is Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Uniformed Services University
School of Medicine (USUHS) and founding Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic
Stress (CSTS). Dr Ursano graduated from University of Notre Dame and Yale University School of
Medicine. He completed residency training in psychiatry at Wilford Hall USAF MC and Yale
University and psychoanalytic training at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr Ursano
served as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of USUHS for 25 years. Dr. Ursano
completed twenty years of service in USAF medical corps. He is Editor of Psychiatry, the
distinguished journal of interpersonal and biological processes, founded by Harry Stack Sullivan.
He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has received the
Department of Defense Humanitarian Service Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, William C. Menninger Memorial Award of the
American College of Physicians, APA’s Bruno Lima Award in Disaster Psychiatry and the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Congressionally-established Association of Military Surgeons of
the United States (AMSUS). He is senior editor of the Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry and was
the first Chairman of the APA‘s Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster. His work
focuses on the interface of psychiatry and public health in times of disaster and terrorism.