Defense Centers of Excellence DCoE

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• Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE)
• for Psychological Health and
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Putting Theory Into Practice
• BG Loree K. Sutton, Director
• Dr. Sonja Batten, Acting Deputy Director
• CAPT Edward Simmer, Senior Executive Director for
  PH
• Col Christopher Simmer, Senior Executive Director
  for TBI
• AMSUS
• Tuesday 11 Nov 2008

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DCoE Headquarters
DCoE Director
Special Staff
Deputy Director (VA)
Scientific Advisor, PH
Scientific Advisor, TBI
Senior Exec Director, TBI
Senior Exec Director, PH
SR DVA Advisor for PH
SR DVA Advisor for TBI
Chief of Staff
Clearing house, Outreach, Advocacy
Research, QA, Program Evaluation Surveillance
Resilience Prevention
TBI Clinical Standards of Care
TeleHealth/ Technology
Strategy, Plans Programs
PH Clinical Standards of Care
Training Education
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Center of Centers
DCoE Headquarters
www.dcoe.health.mil
Telehealth Technology Center (T2)
National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE)
Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP)
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC)
Deployment Health Clinical Center (DHCC)
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS)

• Consultation assessment of post-deployment
  physical symptoms
• Three-week Specialized Care Programs for
  traumatic stress spectrum conditions
• Deployment health-care education using web-based
  and traditional strategies
• Deployment healthcare program implementation
  evaluation
• Clinical deployment health services research

• Leverage telehealth and other technologies to
  screen, educate, prevent, assess and treat
• Research, evaluate, and develop new tech
  applications
• Deploy technologies and provide analyses to
  support key DoD and Service programs including
  suicide tracking, annual and deployment health
  screenings

• Research, education, consultation and training on
  PH and TBI
• Knowledge, leadership and applications for
  preparing for, responding to and recovering from
  the consequences of disaster and trauma
• Integrates science, clinical care, community
  needs and the health of the nation

• Opens Fall 2009
• Clinical arm of DCoE
• PH and TBI intensive outpatient evaluation and
  diagnosis, initial treatment plans,
  family-centered education, telehealth and
  long-term follow-up
• Research teams/consortia (intramural and
  extramural)

• Deployment-related behavioral health training for
  military and civilian mental health professionals
• Research deployment-related needs of service
  members and families
• Efforts underway to extend training to primary
  care and other specialties

• TBI-specific evaluation, treatment and follow-up
  care for all military personnel, their dependents
  and veterans
• TBI clinical research, training and education
• Designated DoD Office of Responsibility for TBI
  surveillance for all the services

www.dcoe.health.mil
www.dvbic.org
www.deploymentpsych.org
www.pdhealth.mil
www.centerforthestudyoftraumaticstress.org
www.dcoe.health.mil
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Tree of Life
DVBIC 8 Military Treatment Facility (MTF)
Sites
Warriors and Families
10 CDP Sites
DVBIC 2 Civilian Sites
National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE)
Defense Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC)
Telehealth and Technology (T2)
Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP)
DVBIC 4 Polytrauma Centers
Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE)
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS)
Deployment Health Clinical Center (DHCC)
USPHS
Defense Health Board (DHB) Advisory Groups
Civilian Collaborators
DoD/ Service Leadership Training
JTF CapMed
Veterans Affairs (VA)
Army
Navy
National Institutes of Health (NIH) / Federal
Partners
International Partners
Uniformed Services University for the Heath
Sciences (USUHS)
USMC
Coast Guard
Air Force
Reserve Components
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Global Outreach
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Building a Culture of Resilience
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DCoE Vision / Mission
Vision Fulfilling Americas commitment to all
who support and defend our Nations freedom
Mission To maximize opportunities for Warriors
and Families to thrive by leading a collaborative
global network promoting resilience, recovery,
and reintegration for Psychological Health and
Traumatic Brain Injury
Our Commitment to the Services To respect unique
Service cultures and disseminate best practices
while exercising urgency, unity of effort,
transparency and accountability to achieve our
common strategic goals
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