Scientific Board

Dr. Peterson is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Touchstone Life Center PLLC, Puyallup Tribal Health Association and the medical director of Touchstone TMS Centers in Puget Sound, Washington.  He is a dual boarded physician in General Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with over 29 years of experience.  During his Army career Dr. Peterson served as the Division Psychiatrist in South Korea with the Second Infantry Division on the DMZ.  At his duty assignment at Joint Base Lewis McChord he started the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program and moved on to become the Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Madigan for over seven years.  He served as the regional psychiatry consultant for the Western Regional Medical Command, the Child Adolescent Psychiatry Consultant to the Army Surgeon General, and the Chair of the Military Issues Committee in the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  Dr. Peterson served two tours in Iraq with the 101st Airborne in 2003 and with the 4th Infantry Division in 2011 in Tikrit.  He has significant understanding and focus for those who struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  He has addressed, treated and studied suicidal behaviors in a combat environment, in garrison, and in civilian communities.  He is known nationally as a subject matter expert in these areas.  Dr. Peterson attended the United States Military Academy and subsequently went to the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda Maryland for medical school.

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A decorated Colonel with the United States Army, Dr. Grammer serves as Chief Medical Officer of Greenbrook TMS, the world’s largest Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy provider, where he developed and implemented policies, procedures, and training at over 120 treatment centers. Dr. Grammer created one of the very first TMS Therapy centers in the United States, and he is valued as a leading practitioner. Dr. Grammer completed two deployments to Iraq, serving as Medical Director for the 785th Combat Stress Control Company and later as a psychiatrist at the Combat Support Hospital at Contingency Operating Base Speicher. He also deployed to Afghanistan as a psychiatrist at the Combat Support Hospital in Bagram. Dr. Grammer served a variety of leadership positions in the Army, including Chief of Inpatient Psychiatric Services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Department Chief of Research at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, and National Director for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. He is published in numerous peer reviewed journals and has authored several book chapters. Dr. Grammer graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and earned his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He holds board certification in Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry.

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Dr. Porges is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer‐reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines that have been cited in more than 30,000 peer-reviewed papers. He holds several patents involved in monitoring and regulating autonomic state. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral, mental, and health problems related to traumatic experiences. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation, The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, and co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies. He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol™, which currently is used by more than 1,500 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement.

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Dr. Boire is an Assistant Member in the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program and an Assistant Attending Neurologist in the Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of the American Association of Cancer Researchers, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Society for Neuro-Oncology, and the American Academy of Neurology. She has received several awards including The Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research and the Pew Biomedical Scholar. She received her BA in Biology from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Tufts, and her MD from the University of Chicago.

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Dr. Cohen is the Director, Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory, and Professor in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry at the University of Florida, and adjunct professor, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University. He is a member of the International Neuropsychological Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Psychological Association, the American Neuropsychiatric Society, and the American Academy of Neuropsychology. Dr. Cohen received his B.Sc. (with honors) in Psychology at Tulane and his PhD in Psychology at LSU.

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Dr. DeKosky is Professor of Alzheimer’s Research at the University of Florida College of Medicine, and Deputy Director of the McKnight Brain Institute. Dr. DeKosky was a member of the national Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association from 1994 to 2002 (Board Vice Chair in 2001-2002), and again from 2003 to 2010. He served as Chair of the Section on Geriatrics of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and chaired the AAN Practice Parameters Committee for Early Detection, Diagnosis and Management of Dementia. He is the founding Chair of the Advisory Council of the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Treatment (ISTAART) and is also a member of the Alzheimer’s Association, served on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is a Fellow of the American Neurological Association. Prior to his current position, Dr. DeKosky served as Vice President and Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia and was chair of the department of Neurology and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his BA (Psychology) from Bucknell, and his MD from the University of Florida.

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