Denise M Sloan is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and Associate Director, Education, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. Sloan received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. She completed her internship in the health psychology track at Rush University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Emotion and Attention, University of Florida. Her current research focus is on emotion and psychopathology, with a specific interest in emotional processes in traumatic stress disorders, and integration of methods to assess and treat emotional disturbances related to traumatic stress. She has received funding for her work from several organizations, including the National Institute for Mental Health and the Department of Defense. Dr. Sloan is a member of several editorial board including Behavior Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine.