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Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ph.D.

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Dr. Kilpatrick obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Georgia and is a Distinguished University Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina where he has been a faculty member since 1970. His primary research interests include measuring prevalence and mental health consequences (e.g., PTSD and related disorders) of exposure to sexual violence, violent crime, mass violence, disasters, and other potentially traumatic events. His research team has conducted numerous projects on these topics funded by grants from the NIH, VA, CDC, National Institute of Justice, and Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). His 400-plus publications have more than 59,000 citations, and his h-index is 120. He was Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, founding member of S.C.’s first rape crisis center in 1974, founding Director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center since its establishment in 1977, founding Director of the OVC-funded National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center in 2017, and Director/Co-Director of the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Program since 1982. He served on three Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Committees and was involved in revisions of the PTSD diagnosis for DSM-IV, DSM-5, and DSM-5TR. He is Chair of the S.C. Crime Victims’ Advisory Board and Past President of ISTSS and the SC Psychological Association. He received the United States Presidential Award for Outstanding Contributions to Victims of Crime, the U.S. Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus Allied Professional Award, lifetime achievement awards from ISTSS, Ending Violence Against Women International, and ABCT, and South Carolina’s highest civilian honor, the Order of the Palmetto. He is particularly gratified by the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Program having received the ABCT 2015 Outstanding Training Program Award because this reflects the amazing contributions to behavioral and cognitive therapy that hundreds of former interns have made over the past 51 years.

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