Dr. Kate McGraw

Director (interim),

Deployment Health Clinical Center

Dr. Kate McGraw is the interim director of the Deployment Health Clinical Center, one of three centers of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE).

McGraw was previously the DHCC associate director of psychological health clinical care where she led a team of subject matter experts to review evidence-based psychological health literature; identify gaps in policy, research and treatment; and to use evidence to resolve scientific, clinical and operational psychological health problems in the Military Health System.

McGraw is the lead for the Defense Department Sexual Assault Advisory Group to the Psychological Health Council.

McGraw’s military experience includes serving as one of the first female U.S. Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile launch officers. She served as aerospace psychologist for the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program and flight commander of mental health. McGraw also served as chief of the deployed team that provided operational mental health support for the Department of Defense Port Mortuary during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

McGraw received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.