Brunch with PTS Expert Dr. Yuval Neria in Westport

Israeli Medal of Valor recipient working on new treatment for Veterans battling Post Traumatic Stress

Dr. Yuval Neria, a world class expert in PTS (Post Traumatic Stress) and Special Medical Advisor to Stand For The Troops Foundation’s (SFTT) PTS and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) initiative, will be in Westport on Sunday, November 24, 2013  at 11:30 AM to speak about his cutting edge study at Columbia University of a new noninvasive treatment for veterans struggling to reclaim their lives.   SFTT, a Greenwich-based non-partisan, apolitical 501(c) 3 foundation has been working to safeguard the physical, emotional and mental well-being of America and returning troops since 1998.

Co-hosts for the brunch are Eilhys England Hackworth of Greenwich, SFTT chair and co-founder with her late husband the valor decorated Col. David Hackworth; Dr. Mark Ehrlich of Weston who has practices in Norwalk and New York City, who serves on the SFTT Medical Task Force that evaluates treatment alternatives that offer promising and lasting treatment results for returning warriors suffering from PTS and TBI; and friends of SFTT.

The grim reality is that 22 Vets a day commit suicide. And more active duty US military personnel have died by suicide since the war in Afghanistan began than have died fighting there.  SFTT is committed to creating a continuum of care by extending replicable LifeLines to these American warriors who have suffered the horrors of combat, only to battle life-destroying PTS and TBI in their tough transition back to civilian life.  

The research Dr. Neria will be talking about in Westport on November 24 holds real promise for helping America’s returning heroes start reclaiming their lives.   Yuval Neria is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, and Director of Trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), where he is currently involved in developing and testing novel, neuroscience-informed treatments for PTSD.  

To attend the brunch and hear Yuval Neria and or to get more information on SFTT and its PTS/TBI Rescue Resource Coalition, call 203-629-0288