Road to War Also the Path to Recovery: Faculty member’s tour of duty leads to help for service members with PTSD
FUTURE magazine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine
Mar 29, 2012
For Lt Col Alan Peterson, a 2004 tour of duty in Iraq as an Air Force psychologist highlighted why PTSD is a signature wound of the war on terror; showed that PTSD can be successfully treated in theater; and served as the inspiration for a world-class PTSD research consortium he would form after he retired from the military and joined the faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.