Organizers

Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP)

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Timothy Rogers, PhD

Timothy Rogers is Assistant Director of Online Training, Technology and Telehealth for the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He is responsible for managing the development, delivery, and evaluation of a range of clinical training and research programs and serves as a subject matter expert/trainer on evidence-based psychotherapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Insomnia.

Dr. Rogers received his Ph.D. in 2009 in Counseling Psychology at the University of Akron. He completed his Clinical Psychology Residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center and served over six years as an active-duty psychologist and deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Dr. Rogers also served for six years as the Associate Program Director for the USAF Clinical Psychology Internship at Wilford Hall in San Antonio Texas. Research interests include help-seeking behaviors, PTSD and insomnia treatment, and training in health service psychology. Dr. Rogers currently serves as an APA accreditation site visitor team chair for DoD and VA Clinical Psychology Internships.

Jaime Rodden, MS

Jaime Rodden is a Clinical Research Manager for the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, Ms. Rodden supports the execution of mental health research within military populations, contributing to research initiatives led by Principal Investigators Dr. Maegan Willing, Dr. Jeffrey Cook, and Dr. William Brim. 

Ms. Rodden received her Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from Linfield University and her Master of Science in Exercise Physiology from California State University, Fullerton. She has been contributing to the Center for Deployment Psychology since January 2024. 

Maegan Paxton Willing, PhD, MPH

Maegan Willing (Paxton) is a Research Psychologist with the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Willing’s research broadly examines mental health in military populations. Her primary research interests include the development, correlates, and treatment of sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder in service members, with a particular emphasis on posttraumatic nightmares.

Dr. Willing earned her doctorate in Medical Psychology and Masters of Public Health in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Following her graduate work, Dr. Willing completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Deployment Psychology managing the Second Life Island for Preventing Suicide project, which developed an asynchronous, interactive learning environment to train mental health providers in evidence-based suicide prevention strategies. She has been with USU since 2014 and began working with the CDP in 2018.

Diana Dolan, Ph.D., CBSM, DBSM

Diana Dolan is a clinical psychologist serving as an Associate Director of Training & Education with the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Dolan has served at CDP in several capacities since 2012, including in one role as the associate training director of an APA- accredited clinical psychology internship. She currently oversees programs that provide evidence-based training for military-connected patients on a variety of topics. She also develops and presents trainings, and provides consultation services.  

Dr. Dolan graduated from the University of North Texas with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned her doctorate in clinical health psychology and behavioral medicine from the University of North Texas. She completed a clinical psychology internship at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center in San Antonio, Texas.  Dr. Dolan served as an active duty psychologist and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Dr. Dolan’s professional interests include behavioral treatment of health conditions, in particular sleep disorders and within brief-natured primary care settings, clinical psychology training and program evaluation, and military psychology.  She is certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. She is also a diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine from the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

William Brim, Psy.D.

William Brim is the executive director of the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He joined CDP in 2007, initially as a deployment behavioral health psychologist at Malcolm Grow Medical Center and served as deputy director until 2017.

Prior to joining CDP, Dr. Brim served on active duty as a psychologist in the United States Air Force from 1997 to 2007. Dr. Brim received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee and his master’s and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a graduate of the Wilford Hall Medical Center Psychology Residency Program and the Wilford Hall Clinical Health Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program.

Dr. Brim is a recognized and post-doctoral fellowship trained behavioral sleep medicine specialist. Clinically he focuses on the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder, insomnia and nightmares. Dr. Brim has over 100 publications and presentations on a range of topics including military culture, insomnia and insomnia and nightmare treatments and trauma. He is frequently called on to consult in courts martial and discharge boards as a forensic psychology expert with a specific focus on trauma and memory. Dr. Brim is currently the American Psychological Association’s Military Psychology Division 19 President.

Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP)

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Gloria Park, PhD

Dr. Park serves as the Director Performance Psychology with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, in support of the Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP) and an Assistant Professor in Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. She oversees the psychological, social, and spiritual fitness domains across CHAMP’s leadership, education, operational support, and research initiatives. Dr. Park is a Certified Mental Performance Coach and leverages her expertise in sport, performance, and positive psychology to be a passionate advocate for re-humanizing Human Performance Optimization, and bringing the best of science to helping individuals and organizations thrive.

Camila Almeida, PhD 

Dr. Camila Almeida is a Scientist with the Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University. Leveraging her background in Neuroscience research, she now applies her expertise to science communication and health education. Dr. Almeida is deeply committed to translating evidence-based information into educational resources and providing Service Members with accurate, up-to-date, and relevant content. Currently, she leads the Human Performance Resources by CHAMP (HPRC) mental and social fitness team and serves as the subject matter expert for sleep and fatigue management content. Dr. Almeida devotes her time to creating a wide array of materials, including articles, infographics, guides, worksheets, and workbooks designed to help optimize sleep readiness and manage operational fatigue. She has also created multiple curricula on sleep and fatigue management designed to empower Service Members to optimize their own performance and help others do the same. Her greatest professional reward is to know that her dedication contributes to enhancing the health, wellness, and performance of Service Members.

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)

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Tracy Jill Doty, PhD

Dr. Tracy Jill Doty is the Chief of the Sleep Research Center at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR).  She completed her undergraduate training at Duke University and then received her PhD in Clinical Neuroscience from the NIH-Karolinska Institutet Graduate Partnership Program. Her postdoctoral training occurred in the Translational Neuroscience Branch of the U.S. Army Research Laboratories. With over twenty years of experience in neuroscience – ten of those in military research, Dr. Doty's current research centers on better understanding how sleep impacts human behavior and how interventions, including brain stimulation and caffeine, can be applied to mitigate the negative impact of sleep loss in the field. 

Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS)

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COL Vincent Capaldi, ScM, MD 

COL Vincent F. Capaldi, II, MC, USA, is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Senior Medical Scientist at the Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He is board-certified in Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, and Sleep Medicine, having completed dual residency training and a sleep medicine fellowship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Capaldi has held key leadership roles, including Officer in Charge of the Restoration Program in Afghanistan and Theater Behavioral Health Consultant in Iraq. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed works on sleep disorders, traumatic brain injury, and post-stroke depression, and serves as the Fatigue Management Capabilities Area Manager for the Military Operational Research Program and Sleep Medicine Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General. Among his numerous awards, he was recognized with the 2024 MG Lewis Aspey Mologne Award, Army Medicine's highest honor.

United States Air Force (USAF)

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MAJ Jordan Ellis

Maj Jordan M. Ellis is the clinical health psychology element chief for Andrews Medical Group at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. He is board certified in clinical health psychology and biofeedback. Maj Ellis also serves as the associate program director for the clinical psychology residency program, supervising and training residents. Maj Ellis has wide ranging clinical experience in behavioral sleep medicine, pain psychology, cardiac psychology, and primary care behavioral health. His research is primarily focused on the development and implementation of population level sleep health interventions for active duty service members.

Department of Neurology for the Uniformed Services University 

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COL Kent Werner, MD, PhD 

J. Kent Werner, Jr., MD PhD, is a neurologist and neuroscientist serving as an active duty Commander in the Navy Medical Corps. An Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD, he is board certified in sleep medicine and neurology, treating patients with sleep and traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related neurological disorders at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) and in the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE). He also serves as the Director of Research of the WRNMMC Sleep Disorders Center. His research focuses on the impact of TBI on sleep physiology and cognitive performance. After graduating from the US Naval Academy, he deployed as a Surface Warfare Officer onboard the USS MAHAN (DDG-72), earning his Surface Warfare qualification. Upon entering the Medical Corps, he completed his medical degree, cellular and molecular neuroscience doctorate, and neurology residency at Johns Hopkins University, where he serves currently as Adjunct Faculty. He previously served as Chief of Neurology at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital before completing his fellowship in sleep medicine at WRNMMC.