Dr. Paula Schnurr is the Executive Director of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in the Veterans Health Administration. She was one of the Center’s co-founders in 1989 initially served as Deputy Executive Director. She is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Editor of the Clinician's Trauma Update-Online. Dr. Schnurr is Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and previously served as Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress. She has won numerous awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. She has co-authored several of the most widely-used measures of PTSD, including the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale and the PTSD Checklist. She is an expert on psychotherapy research methods and has conducted a number of clinical trials of PTSD treatment, including large multi-site trials of Prolonged Exposure for female veterans and active duty personnel with PTSD and of group psychotherapy for PTSD in Vietnam veterans. Her most recent trial compared Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy in a sample of over 900 Veterans.