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Institute for Trauma Recovery


The Institute for Trauma Recovery is a multidisciplinary team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill focused on advancing the understanding of trauma recovery processes and developing interventions to promote rapid recovery and prevent chronic symptoms. The institute values collaboration among faculty and staff to improve care for individuals who have experienced trauma.

Industries

health-care
medical
pharmaceutical

Nr. of Employees

small (1-50)

Institute for Trauma Recovery

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Products

AURORA Study (national trauma research initiative)

A major multisite prospective research program enrolling trauma survivors at emergency departments to generate multimodal datasets (molecular, imaging, physiological, clinical) for biomarker and intervention development.

Better Tomorrow Network (research network for sexual assault survivors)

A not-for-profit, community-governed research network established to increase the quantity and quality of large-scale studies serving sexual assault survivors and to harmonize research across sites.

CRASH cohort studies (motor vehicle collision recovery cohorts)

Cohort studies performing genotypic and phenotypic characterization of recovery after minor motor vehicle collision to identify risk factors for chronic pain and psychological sequelae.

Expertise Areas

  • Trauma-focused clinical research
  • Longitudinal cohort study design and execution
  • Biomarker discovery (genomics, neuroimaging, physiology)
  • Bioinformatics and computational analysis
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Key Technologies

  • Genomics (DNA sequencing and analysis)
  • Neuroimaging (structural and functional imaging)
  • Bioinformatics pipelines
  • Physiological data collection
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Key People

Director of UNC Institute for Trauma Recovery, Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine

Institute Managing Director

Research Project Manager

Administrative Support Specialist


Investors

Health Resources and Services Administration


News & Updates

Presentations from the pilot study (2008-2011) assessing the feasibility of a multi-site network for improving care for sexual assault survivors.

An article discussing how science can improve the diagnosis of PTSD, highlighting the work of the Institute for Trauma Recovery.

An article detailing the experiences of women receiving SANE care during the year after sexual assault.

An article about an app created to provide mental health support to front-line workers during the pandemic.

The Institute for Trauma Recovery is teaming up with federal defense officials to test a method for dealing with stress and mental health challenges.

The newly-funded initiative will test the efficacy of an intervention developed at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research originally designed to help service members who experience acute stress reactions during military operations.


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