USU Centers
- Center for Deployment Psychology
The Center for Deployment Psychology was developed to promote the education of psychologists and other behavioral health specialists about issues pertaining to the deployment of military personnel.
As the duration and frequency of military deployments increase, service members and their families are faced with increasing behavioral health difficulties associated with or exacerbated by deployment. The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), an innovative Department of Defense training consortium, has been established to better meet the deployment-related mental and behavioral health needs of military personnel and their families. The CDP is a tri-service center funded by Congress to train military and civilian psychologists, psychology interns/residents, and other behavioral health professionals to provide high quality deployment-related behavioral healthservices to military personnel and their families.
- Center for Health Disparities
The Uniformed Services University Center for Health Disparities (USUCHD) in collaboration with the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES), is a non-profit organization newly funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD). This grant is administered by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the advancement of the Military Medicine.
- Center for Preventive Medicine and Public Health
The Centers for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, an entity within the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, operates under terms of a memorandum of understanding with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the advancement of Military Medicine (HJF). Combining broad expertise in research, consultation, education, training and clinical preventive medicine and public health we develop databases and analytic methodologies, prepare innovative curricula and evaluate processes and outcomes in clinical practice.
The Center serves program managers and policy makers in the Department of Defense, other federal agencies, local governments and private organizations concerned with health policies and services. We coordinate the resources of multiple separate centers of excellence to ensure that the appropriate collective expertise is applied. We enhance the satiability and long-term effectiveness of our parent organization by attracting, retaining and providing for the professional growth of outstanding faculty and staff, by providing high quality educational experiences to our students and by promoting excellence in clinical preventive medicine and public health.
- Center for Prostate Diseases Research
The Center for Prostate Disease Research is the only free-standing prostate cancer research center in the U.S. This 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art basic science laboratory facility is attracting the best and brightest to study the disease. Using blood and tissues collected from volunteering military beneficiaries, the CPDR laboratory has amassed a large bank of prostate cancer specimens that are serving to unravel the genetics of the disease.
- Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
As part of the Department of Psychiatry of our federal medical school, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), the Center was established in 1987 as a public private partnership of USUHS and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. The Center�s approach integrates science, clinical care, community needs and the health of the nation. Its team is multi-disciplinary with expertise in disaster psychiatry, military medicine and psychiatry, social and organizational psychology, neuroscience, family violence, workplace preparedness and public education.
- DoD Center for Education & Research in Patient Safety
The DoD Center for Education and Research in Patient Safety is located on the National Naval Medical Center campus and administratively positioned within the Continuing Education for Health Professionals Directorate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). CERPS is one of the three major components of the Department of Defense Patient Safety Program and was established to provide the Military Health System (MHS) community with the educational materials, tools, training, and resources necessary to improve the safety and quality of health care delivery within the MHS.
- Military Cancer Institute
The Institute is a component of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). USMCI is headquartered at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and has components at USU, the National Naval Medical Center, the Malcolm Grow Air Force Medical Center, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute.
- National Capital Simulation Center
The Medical Simulation Center is divided into four main functional areas. Clinical Skills Teaching and Assessment Laboratory, the VTC Room and Computer Laboratory and the Surgical Simulation Laboratory are each divided into distinct sections that sustain and when necessary integrate the operations of the entire center. The Clinical Skills Teaching and Assessment Laboratory is an ideal setting for simulated patent encounters. The VTC Room functions as both a tool for distance learning, and a conference room. The Computer Laboratory is designed for the development of medical education software and the administration of clinical examinations. The Surgical Simulation Laboratory uses a full-scale operating room mock-up and virtual reality to provide highly realistic scenarios for surgical training.
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4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
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