Saluting Service Honorees

Jason DeViva is a clinical psychologist who currently works with the VA Connecticut Health Care System as part of the posttraumatic stress disorder clinical team. He is co-director of the PTSD Clinical Team and a PTSD mentor for the New England region Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN 1). He is the military sexual trauma coordinator for VA Connecticut and the VISN 1 MST point of contact. He is a national lead trainer for the VA’s dissemination of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia and a local trainer and consultant in the VA’s dissemination of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder. He also serves as an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. DeViva received his undergraduate degree from Yale University. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hawai‘i and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in trauma and anxiety at Dartmouth Medical School. He has worked in the VA system for the past 19 years, treating veterans of all eras with posttraumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders. He has published numerous academic papers on trauma and related topics in professional journals, and regularly presents at national and international conferences. He is co-author of a book for family and loved ones of individuals with posttraumatic stress.