2025.01.14 – TBI and PTSD: Teasing Apart Complex Associations and Outcomes (Recorded Webinar)

A David Strauss Memorial Clinical Lecture recorded webinar featuring Maya O'Neil, Ph.D. and Kate Clauss, Ph.D.

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Aired live on January 14, 2025. Includes 1 ACBIS CEU. 

Note: A certificate of attendance/ACBIS CEU certificate will not be available with the purchase of this webinar after January 15, 2028.

In this clinical webinar, Maya O'Neil, Ph.D. and Kate Clauss, Ph.D. explore how Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affect different aspects of patients' lives, including mental health, cognitive function, overall quality of life, sleep, and substance use. They also discuss treatment options for patients who have ongoing TBI and PTSD symptoms.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the complex associations between TBI and PTSD.
  • Identify how both PTSD and TBI relate to short and long-term outcomes.
  • Discuss gaps in PTSD and TBI evidence and how current research is attempting to fill these knowledge gaps.

 Includes 1 ACBIS CEU.


Speaker Bios

Maya O’Neil, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University and a Psychology Program Manager at the Portland VA where she sees patients and conducts research. She is also a Core Investigator with the Portland VA’s Health Systems Research Center of Innovation and Associate Director for Education at the VISN 20 Northwest MIRECC. Her research and clinical work focuses on assessment, treatment, and health systems related to PTSD, TBI, and suicide prevention. She is the principal investigator of numerous grants focused on PTSD, TBI, and suicide prevention funded by VA, AHRQ, Department of Defense, and other local and national funding agencies.

Kate Clauss, Ph.D. is an investigator in the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) at the VA Portland Healthcare System and an Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in the Department of Psychiatry. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and specializes in trauma-related conditions including post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide, and traumatic brain injury. She is particularly interested in cognitive factors that influence trauma-related psychopathology (e.g., executive functioning, attentional control) and the application of cognitive research to novel interventions for trauma-related distress.