Worksop Facilitator

David S. Riggs, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Center for Deployment Psychology and a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Riggs oversees the development and delivery of training seminars to behavioral health professionals to prepare them to provide for the needs of military service members and their families throughout the deployment cycle.

As a clinical and research psychologist, much of Dr. Riggs’ work has focused on trauma, violence and anxiety with a particular interest in the impact of PTSD and other anxiety disorders on the families of those directly affected. He has trained numerous students and mental health professionals from the United States and other countries in techniques for treating PTSD, OCD and other anxiety disorders. This has included training professionals in ways to address the needs of survivors of international terror, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, military trauma, and sexual and physical assault. Recently he co-led a series of workshops to train military behavioral health professionals who are preparing to deploy to treat PTSD and other trauma-related distress.