Biography: Paul Holtzheimer, MD, is the Deputy Director for Research at the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and a staff psychiatrist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the White River Junction VA Medical Center.
Dr. Holtzheimer’s clinical and research interests include developing better interventions for PTSD, depression and related disorders, especially for patients with treatment-resistant and comorbid illness. He has expertise in brain imaging and brain stimulation therapies (including transcranial magnetic stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation). A primary aim of his research program is to better understand the neural circuitry of treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders and to use this information to develop and advance novel treatment approaches, with a particular emphasis on focal brain stimulation therapies.
Dr. Holtzheimer is an author on over 100 publications in psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery and neuroimaging. He has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs and multiple non-profit foundations. He has served on the Council of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. He is a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.