Clinical Research Psychologist
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Megan E. Douglas, PhD, is a licensed Clinical Health Psychologist and Research Investigator with the Center. Her research focus is on the intersection of trauma and health outcomes from a biopsychosocial perspective. Specific research areas include psychosocial outcomes following traumatic injury, evidence-based treatments for PTSD, and chronic disease management and behavioral medicine (including diabetes, pain, and obesity, healthy lifestyle, and behavioral sleep medicine).
She received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Southeast Missouri State University and her Master’s and Doctoral degree (Clinical Health Psychology) from the University of North Texas. Her Clinical Health Psychology APA-Accredited Internship was completed through the Yale-affiliated Veteran’s Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship through the Baylor Scott & White Research Institute in Rehabilitation Research with concurrent clinical rotations in Medical Psychology (Baylor Scott & White Medical Center- Plano) and Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology (Baylor Scott and White Institute for Rehabilitation-Dallas).