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Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., is currently the Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health at Tulane University and a professor in the Graduate School of Social Work.
He is director of the Psychosocial Stress Research Program and the Traumatology Institute and is also editor of Traumatology, an international journal published by Sage Publications. He has served as founding editor of both the Journal of Family Psychotherapy and the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
Dr. Figley began his career in 1971 as a member of the faculty at Bowling Green State University in Ohio before returning to Penn State for his PhD. Since then he has held faculty appoints at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) and Florida State University as a full professor.
He has held sabbatical appoints at Princeton, Cornell Medical School, and Kuwait University, where he was a Fulbright fellow and visiting professor of Social Science Research.
Through his 20 books, 97 refereed journal articles, and hundreds of invited presentations throughout the world, Dr. Figley has influence and shaped the fields and research areas of trauma, secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue), family stress and coping, and veteran/veteran family studies including combat/operational stress management.
He is winner of dozens of awards, including the ISTSS Pioneer Award, the American Psychological Association's Family Psychologist of the Year, the NOVA Shaffer Research Award, and the Alumni Fellow (the highest award by a Pennsylvania State University graduate), a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation.
Dr. Figley has given the Frontiers of Science Lecture at the University of Ottawa, the Marriage and Family Therapy Institute Annual Lecture at the University of Georgia, the Donna Cox Bridger Endowed Lectureship in Nursing and has also received the University of Missouri International Psychosocial Trauma Center's Humanitarian of the Year Award.