Marylene Cloitre PhD

Dr. Marylene Cloitre is the Associate Director of Research of the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division, located at the Palo Alto VA Health Care Services. She is also Research Professor of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City.

Her research and clinical work for the past 20 years has focused on PTSD and the long-term effects of trauma on social and emotional functioning. She has received funding from federal agencies continuously for the past 15 years on the assessment and treatment of adolescents and adults who have experienced childhood abuse and traumatic loss and has written over 120 books, chapters and articles.