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Dr. Megan Douglas holds a PhD in Clinical Health Psychology from the University of North Texas and is a licensed psychologist. Her APA-accredited clinical internship was completed at the West Haven Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, a Yale-affiliated institution. Through the Health Psychology track, she completed clinic rotations in Primary Care Clinical Health Psychology (therapy and assessment), MOVE! Weight Management, Integrated Pain, Interdisciplinary Stroke, Inpatient Consultation- Liaison, and Smoking Cessation. As a postdoctoral fellow, she completed rotations in rehabilitation and medical psychology through the Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation, a site for both Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems, as well as with the Medical Psychology Center in Plano, Texas. As a clinician she is trained in several evidence-based psychotherapies and has conducted workshops on Prolonged Exposure therapy as a treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
After completing her fellowship, she worked as a Research Scientist with the Trauma Research Consortium at Baylor University Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center. She assisted with several federally-funded randomized clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Her research focused on trauma and psychological conditions following traumatic injury.
Dr. Douglas is currently a Clinical Research Psychologist with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research- West (WRAIR-West), a WRAIR research directorate, located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. Being co-located with service members enables collaborations with Army and Air Force units, as well as Madigan Army Medical Center and the Traumatic Brain Injury & Intrepid Spirit Center. Dr. Douglas has over 10 years of clinical research experience and is a principal investigator on several ongoing studies which emphasize brain health, optimizing mental health care and improving the health and resiliency of active-duty service members. Specific areas of interest include: military health, posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma and resiliency, rehabilitation, healthy lifestyle interventions, pain, and behavioral sleep medicine.
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