Michelle J. Bovin, PhD, is staff psychologist at the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD, and an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Michelle received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Temple University in 2011, and completed a NIMH-funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship in 2013. Her interests include PTSD assessment and access to care. She is currently the PI of a VA HSR&D-funded project which will determine the optimal cutoff score for a PTSD diagnosis using the newly updated PTSD screen. She is also the assessment training and reliability coordinator for CSP 591, a 17-site study comparing the effectiveness of prolonged exposure (PE) and cognitive processing therapy (CPT) among veterans. In addition, she is working with collaborators at the VA Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) and Texas A&M University to test a novel methodology for using healthcare encounters to predict suicide outcomes.
