Kwang H. Choi, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Uniformed Services University

 

Kwang Choi, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University and a Scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in Bethesda, Maryland. He received his BS and Master’s degrees in South Korea, and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. As a postdoctoral researcher, he joined the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He worked on the project related to drug addiction and stress using animal models and various molecular and biochemical techniques. After completing his postdoctoral training, he worked as a scientist at the Stanley Medical Research Institute, investigating pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders using post-mortem brain tissue of affected individuals. At the USU, he has been working on drug addiction, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury using preclinical and clinical paradigms. One of his research goals is to contribute to the knowledgebase of neuroscience by identifying clinically relevant information for neuropsychiatric disorders because this may facilitate prevention and treatment strategies for traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and substance use disorders.

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