Robert DeMartino, MD

     Robert DeMartino, MD is Associate Director for the Program in 
     Trauma and Terrorism, Division of Program Development, Special Populations 
     and Projects, Center for Mental Health Services, US Public Health Service. 
     He earned his medical degree from Tufts University before completing residency 
     training in both internal medicine and psychiatry. Subsequently, he worked 
     with Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees while serving as fellow in International 
     Psychiatry at the Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts. He 
     co-authored Guidelines for the Evaluation and Care of Victims of Trauma and 
     Violence, the first such publication from the office of the United Nations 
     High Commissioner for Refugees. Since coming to the Department of Health and 
     Human Services he has been involved in Federal planning for the behavioral and 
     psychosocial effects of the terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction, and 
     represents the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on the 
     Department of Health and Human Services Ad Hoc Working Group on 
     Counter-Bioterrorism.



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