Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH

COL Ritchie is currently the psychiatry consultant to the US Army Surgeon General. She trained at Harvard, George Washington, Walter Reed, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Her assignments and other missions have taken her to Korea, Somalia, Iraq, and Vietnam. An internationally recognized expert, she brings a unique public health approach to the management of disaster and combat mental health issues. She has published numerous articles on forensic, disaster, and military operational psychiatry. In 2005 she received the William Porter and Bruno Lima awards. Her textbook, “Mental Health Interventions for Mass Violence and Disaster” was recently published by Guilford Press. She has recently finished editing a volume for Military Medicine on the response to the tsunami, and is currently senior editor on a forthcoming text on Combat and Operational Mental Health.