Dr. Friedman is the Policy Advisor for the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research. He is Executive Director of the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Professor of Psychiatry and of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School.
He has worked with PTSD patients as a clinician and researcher for thirty-five years and has published extensively on stress and PTSD, biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and clinical outcome studies on depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and chemical dependency. He has over 200 publications, including seventeen books and monographs.
Listed in The Best Doctors in America, he is a Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), past chair of the scientific advisory board of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, a member of APA's DSM-V Anxiety Disorders Work Group, and has served on many VA, Department of Defense and National Institute for Mental Health research, education and policy committees. He has received many honors including the ISTSS Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.