Sheila Rauch, PhD
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Sheila Rauch, PhD, ABPP
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Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center
Emory Healthcare Veterans Program
Biography
Sheila A.M. Rauch, Ph.D., ABPP co-led design and now serves as Deputy Director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and Director of Mental Health Research and Program Evaluation at the Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center.
With the goal to improve access to effective mental health care, Dr. Rauch has been developing programs, conducting research, and providing PTSD and Anxiety Disorders treatment for over 20 years. Her research focuses on examination of mechanisms involved in the development and treatment of PTSD and improving access to effective interventions. She has led several PTSD treatment outcome and mechanisms trials including pharmaceutical and therapy trials, at times moving interventions for PTSD into medical and primary care settings.
She has published over 220 peer-reviewed scholarly articles as well as many and books on anxiety disorders and PTSD focusing on neurobiology and factors involved in the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders, psychosocial factors in medical settings, and the relation between physical health and anxiety.
Dr. Rauch was awarded membership in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Scientific Council of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
