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Charles W. Hoge, MD, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired) is regarded as a leading authority on the mental health impact of war. He graduated from
Sarah Lawrence College (BA) and the University of Maryland School of
Medicine (MD). He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Johns
Hopkins Baltimore City Hospital, an Infectious Diseases-Geographic
Medicine fellowship at University of Maryland, and a Psychiatry residency
from Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC). His twenty-year
active-duty military career began as a Public Health Service Officer at the
Centers for Disease Control where he led investigations of communicable
disease outbreaks. After two years, he transferred to the Army. For six
years he directed field studies to prevent tropical diseases in deployed
troops, and for twelve years served as an Army psychiatrist.

Between 2002 and 2009, Colonel Hoge directed the Defense Department's premier research program to mitigate the psychological and neurological consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, including PTSD, TBI,
and sleep deprivation. He served as an attending psychiatrist at WRAMC,
providing treatment to warriors and family members. He deployed to Iraq
in 2004 and traveled throughout the country to improve combat stress control services.

Dr. Hoge's expertise spans psychiatry, trauma, public health, health
policy, and infectious diseases. He has authored more than one hundred
peer-reviewed articles in international journals. His groundbreaking studies on PTSD, mTBI, and stigma published in the New England Journal of
Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association are the most cited
medical articles from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Dr. Hoge has testified
several times to Congress and appeared frequently on national television
and radio news shows. His work has contributed to significant increases in
congressional funding for programs to help service members and veterans, and he continues to devote his career to promoting evidence-based
interventions to improve warrior care.

He lives in the Washington, D.C., area with his wife, Charise, and
daughters, Alex and Amelia.