Dr. Kenneth Ruggiero is Co-Investigator of the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research, and the lead investigator on the development and evaluation of the Brief Internet Psychoeducational Intervention (BIPI). He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from West Virginia University. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, as well as Research Health Scientist at the Charleston VAMC.
His interests include the epidemiology of potentially traumatic events and related mental health outcomes, development and evaluation of Internet-based self-help protocols for youth and adults at risk for mental health problems, and development and evaluation of Internet-based provider-training protocols in evidence-based treatment. His disaster studies, funded by NIMH, have focused on such events as the 2004 Florida Hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2001 terrorist attacks.
He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Traumatic Stress and Journal of Interpersonal Violence, is past-president of the Disasters and Trauma Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), and is past-chair of ABCT's Public Education and Media Dissemination Committee.