Karestan Koenen

Karestan Chase Koenen (born June 23, 1968) is an American epidemiologist and Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the head of the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. She is a fellow of the American Psychopathological Association and a former president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2015, she received the Robert S. Laufer, PhD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Publications

 * Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Interpersonal Trauma, the revised and updated version she co-authored, was published in June 2020

Education

 * Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2002, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Columbia University
 * Ph.D., 1999, Clinical Psychology, Boston University
 * M.A., 1996, Developmental Psychology, Columbia University
 * B.A., 1990, Economics, Wellesley College