Dr Rachel Yehuda is an Endowed Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, where she is Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division and the Founder and Director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research.
She has conducted groundbreaking studies with combat veterans, Holocaust survivors, and victims of terror attacks and interpersonal violence. Her recent study of the children of Holocaust survivors demonstrated how the lessons from trauma are passed down intergenerationally, through markers in the genes.
The author of more than 500 papers and recipient of numerous grants and awards, she was elected in 2019 to the US National Academy of Medicine for her seminal contributions to our understanding of traumatic stress.
