Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. has been a staff psychiatrist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Boston since 1987, where his only patients have been combat veterans with severe psychological injuries. In 2007, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for his work with veterans. Shay is the author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (1994) and of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (2002), the latter of which has a foreword authored jointly by US Senators John McCain and Max Cleland.
Between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005, Dr. Shay was Chair of Ethics, Leadership, and Personnel Policy in the Office of the US Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, and earlier was Visiting Scholar-at-Large at the US Naval War College (2001) and performed the Commandant of the Marine Corps Trust Study (1999-2000).
Jonathan Shay received a B.A. (1963) from Harvard University and an M.D. (1971) and Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Pennsylvania. For a link to his bio on the MacArthur Foundation site, click here. For an interesting bio of Dr. Shay that was published some years ago in the New York Times, go here.
