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NARSAD mourns the loss of Gwill Newman, founding president of NARSAD
Gwill Newman, 78, a champion for mental health research and first NARSAD president, died August 30 at her retirement home in Tesuque, N.M. Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and dedicated much of her life to work for better treatments ...
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Weill Cornell Medical College
Narsad Affiliation: YI 2002, YI 2005
Focus: PTSD
Francis S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, still thinks about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At the outpatient psychiatry clinic, he sees a small handful of patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, caused by the strikes on New York. Working with these patients so many years after the fact, Dr. Lee realizes there is a problem with their pharmacological treatment. “The fact that we are still treating their PTSD symptoms tells you the drugs aren’t all that we want them to be,” he says. “We don’t understand why some people don’t respond.”