The Army STARRS Research Team

The Steering Committee unites experts in:
  • military health
  • health and behavior surveys
  • epidemiology
  • suicide
  • genetic and neurobiological factors involved in psychological health
  • research program oversight and implementation

The Army STARRS team of investigators and scientists, led by Robert Ursano, M.D., of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Murray Stein, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, San Diego, includes researchers from:

  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Harvard Medical School
  • University of Michigan
  • University of California, San Diego

The research team includes scientists from:

  • The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Many other experts work with the Army STARRS investigators and scientists to make this work possible. They include:

  • A Study Director and Program Officer from NIMH who provide oversight and management
  • An Army Executive Director who provides oversight and manages the study for the Army
  • Scientific consultants from the United States Army Public Health Command
  • A diverse group of scientific collaborators, each with specific, relevant expertise

Please click the links below to learn more about the members of the Army STARRS team.

Steering Committee

COL Steven Cersovsky, M.D., M.P.H.
Preventive Medicine Consultant, Army STARRS, U.S. Army

James D. Churchill, Ph.D.
Program Officer, National Institute of Mental Health

Lisa J. Colpe, Ph.D., M.P.H
Project Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health

Kenneth Cox, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Informatics Consultant, Army STARRS, U.S. Army

Steven Heeringa, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, University of Michigan

Ronald C. Kessler, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Harvard Medical School

Scott Ludtke, GS-15
Acting Executive Director, Army STARRS, U.S. Army

Kevin Quinn, Ph.D.
Study Director, National Institute of Mental Health

Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D.
Project Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health

Murray B. Stein, M.D., M.P.H.
Lead Principal Investigator, University of California, San Diego

Robert J. Ursano, M.D.
Lead Principal Investigator, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Collaborators

COL David M. Benedek, M.D.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Gregory G. Brown, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego

Carol S. Fullerton, Ph.D.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Nancy Gebler, M.A., P.M.P.
University of Michigan

Robert K. Gifford, Ph.D.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Stephen E. Gilman, Sc.D.
Harvard School of Public Health

Ruben C. Gur, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

Robert Heinssen, Ph.D., ABPP
National Institute of Mental Health

Marjan G. Holloway, Ph.D.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Tzu-Cheg (David) Kao, Ph.D.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Karestan C. Koenen, Ph.D.
Columbia University

Holly H. Mash, Ph.D.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

James E. McCarroll, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Katie A. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School

James A. Naifeh, Ph.D.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Patcho Santiago, M.D., M.P.H.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Alan M. Zaslavsky, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School

Scientific Advisory Board

Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD - Chair
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Yerkes Research Center
Emory University

Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Chief, Division of Psychiatric Epigenomics
Friedman Brain Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York

COL Paul Bliese, MS, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Silver Spring, Maryland

Lisa Brenner, PhD, ABPP
Director
Veteran Integrated Service Network 19
Mental Illness Research, Education, & Clinical Center
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, &
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine

David Brent, MD,
Professor of Psychiatry
Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies
Director Services for Teens at Risk
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Matthew J. Friedman MD, PhD
Executive Director
National Center for PTSD
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
And
Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology & Toxicology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
Gelman Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, New York

Jitender Sareen MD, FRCPC
Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Community Health Sciences
University of Manitoba

COL Carl Castro – Observer
Director
Military Operational Medicine Research Program
Headquarters, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Ft. Detrick, Maryland

Mark A Geyer, PhD – Observer
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences
University of California San Diego
And
Marine Resiliency Study
Research Service, San Diego Veterans Administration Hospital

Terri Gleason, PhD – Observer
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of Research and Development

CDR Sheri Parker, MSC, USN – Observer
Naval Medical Research and Development Command

Eric B. Schoomaker, MD, PhD – Observer
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired)
Scholar-in-Residence and Distinguished Professor of Military & Emergency Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland