Lia Thomas, M.D., F.A.C.P., Medical Director, Mental Health Trauma Services, Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS), and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, will speak on the topic “A Soldier’s Mind: Mental Health Needs of Combat Veterans,” on Tuesday, November 16, at 12 Noon in the McDermott Plaza Lecture Hall (Room D1.700). Registration is not required to attend the forum; light lunch will be provided.
A graduate of Smith College and the Tulane University Health Science Center’s School of Medicine, Dr. Thomas completed her residency in psychiatry at UT Southwestern, where she won the 2004 Award for Outstanding Resident Contribution to Medical Student Education. Since 2007 she has served as a staff physician, acting medical director, and current medical director at the VANTHCS. Dr. Thomas’s research interests include diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), veterans and suicide, and the impact of PTSD on the families of veterans.
The event will be hosted by Alina Suris, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Clinical Director, Mental Health Trauma Services, VANTHCS, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston, Dr. Suris joined the VANTHCS in 1991 as a clinical psychologist and is currently the clinical director of the Mental Health Trauma Services Program and the director of the Women’s Stress Disorder and Military Sexual Trauma Program.
For more information, contact John Fullinwider either by email or by phone at 214-648-3801.
Co-sponsors: UT Southwestern Medical Center Library / UT School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus / UT Southwestern Department of Psychiatry / UT Southwestern School of Health Professions / UT Southwestern, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Ethics & Health Policy / American Medical Women’s Association, Dallas / Dallas County HHS District 3 Public Health Advisory Committee American Medical Student Association, Dallas / UT Southwestern Medical Humanities Interest Group / UT Southwestern Global Health Interest Group / Dallas Ft. Worth Area Health Education Center / UT Southwestern, Office of Community Recruitment Initiatives / UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Department of Clinical Sciences, recipient of the North and Central Texas Clinical and Translational Science Initiative (CTSA NIH Grant UL1-RR024982)