Shira Maguen, Ph.D.
Shira Maguen, Ph.D.
San Francisco VAMC
San Francisco, CA
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Shira Maguen, Ph.D. is a Research Psychologist in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. Dr. Maguen completed her undergraduate and masters degrees at Columbia University. She completed her internship and postdoctoral training at the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System after receiving her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University.
Dr. Maguen's research interests fall under the umbrella of PTSD and include risk and resilience factors in veterans. She is the recipient of a VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Career Development Award (CDA) that examines the impact of killing in veterans of war. During her award, she will examine the impact of killing among veterans of different eras, including Vietnam, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). She will conduct focus groups with combat veterans aimed at developing a measure that will index cognitions associated with killing in war and develop a treatment module, which targets the impact of killing in war, to be used with existing evidence-based treatments for PTSD. Dr. Maguen also is the recipient of two grants from the Department of Defense that examine PTSD and co-morbid conditions in OEF/OIF women veterans and mild TBI and PTSD in OEF/OIF veterans. Other research interest include prolonged grief disorder and coping with the ongoing threat of terrorism in countries such as Israel.