Charles Marmar Schub Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Director, NYU Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder & PTSD Executive Director, NYU Langone Military Family Center Charles R. Marmar, MD joined NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Langone Health in 2009 as the Lucius N. Littauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. He has recently been named the Peter H. Schub Professor of Psychiatry. He also serves as Director of the Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorders and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and as Executive Director of the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Center. Prior to being recruited to NYU Dr. Marmar was Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health and Director of the PTSD Research Program at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Dr. Marmar graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BSc in 1966 and an MD in 1970, completing his residency in Psychiatry and an Ontario Mental Health Foundation Fellowship in Neuropharmacology at the University of Toronto in 1976. He next completed a Fellowship in Traumatic Stress and Grief in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF in 1978. Dr. Marmar’s primary clinical expertise is in post-traumatic stress disorder in active-duty military, veterans, police officers and civilians. His research has led to breakthroughs in our understanding of the epidemiology, biology, treatment and prevention of PTSD through the study of risk and resilience factors, blood biomarkers, neuroimaging, psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy of PTSD.Internationally renowned for his expertise in PTSD, he has served on multiple committees and scientific advisory groups including serving as President, Society for Psychotherapy Research in 1989, President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in 1994 and chairing NIMH Violence and Traumatic Stress Study Section in 1996. An award-winning teacher and researcher, Dr. Marmar received the Outstanding Teaching Award from UCSF Psychiatry Residents Association in 1984, Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Medical Directors Honor Award for Public Service after the 1989 Bay Area earthquake, J. Elliot Royer Award from UCSF as the outstanding Bay Area psychiatrist in 1999, London Metropolitan Police Commanders Award for developing compassionate practices in death notification in 2007, Spero Award from Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry for pioneering research and profound clinical commitment to patients with PTSD in 2012, Fellow, Military Service Initiative for the George W. Bush Institute, advising President Bush on trauma care for veterans from 2018-2019, Awarded Peter H. Schub Endowed Professorship, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine in 2022, Named Master Clinician, Dean’s Honor Day, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, November 9, 2022, and Appointed to National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism in 2024. Participant In: Stress Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » A testament to its ubiquity, STRESS is woven into our very words, our thoughts and our emotions. We stress words to give them emphasis. We stress wood to make it stronger rather than splinter. And we feel distress, both when overwhelmed with dread, but also sometimes in joyous anticipation. The chase creates stress. Loss and failure create stress. Even… read more » Why War? January 11th, 2025 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » This question is nearly always posed rhetorically, as in: there is no “good” reason for war, is there? But responses to Why War? that grasp it literally are surely also called for. At the very least, merely insisting on war’s moral vacuity has sadly failed to drive it to extinction. Writing two centuries ago Clausewitz claimed that… read more »
Stress Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » A testament to its ubiquity, STRESS is woven into our very words, our thoughts and our emotions. We stress words to give them emphasis. We stress wood to make it stronger rather than splinter. And we feel distress, both when overwhelmed with dread, but also sometimes in joyous anticipation. The chase creates stress. Loss and failure create stress. Even… read more »
Why War? January 11th, 2025 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » This question is nearly always posed rhetorically, as in: there is no “good” reason for war, is there? But responses to Why War? that grasp it literally are surely also called for. At the very least, merely insisting on war’s moral vacuity has sadly failed to drive it to extinction. Writing two centuries ago Clausewitz claimed that… read more »