Paul Holtzheimer, MD
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Paul Holtzheimer, MD
National Center for PTSD
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Biography
Dr. Paul Holtzheimer is the Deputy Director for Research at the National Center for PTSD, Executive Division. He is a Professor of Psychiatry and Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and a staff psychiatrist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the White River Junction VA Medical Center.
Dr. Holtzheimer was a member of the workgroup that developed the 2023 VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for PTSD. His clinical and research interests include developing better interventions for PTSD and related disorders, especially for patients with treatment-resistant and co-occurring illness. He has expertise in brain imaging and brain stimulation therapies (including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation). A primary aim of his research program is to better understand the neural circuitry of treatment-resistant PTSD, mood and anxiety disorders, and to use this information to develop and advance novel treatment approaches, with a particular emphasis on focal brain stimulation therapies.
Dr. Holtzheimer obtained his MD at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and an MS in clinical research from Emory University.
