Stephen Cozza
COL, USA (Ret.)
Associate Director, Child and Family Program, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Uniformed Services University
Stephen Cozza, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University where he serves as Associate Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) and is responsible for the Child and Family Program. Dr. Cozza retired from the U.S. Army in 2006 after 25 years of military service. Dr. Cozza’s professional interests have been in the areas of clinical and community response to trauma in both military and civilian communities, including the impact of deployment and combat injury, illness and death on military service members, their families and their children. Dr. Cozza has highlighted the impact of deployment, injury, illness and death on the children and families of military service members. He has also examined the risk for prolonged grief disorder, a unique grief-related clinical condition, in families affected by sudden and violent deaths, including those bereaved due to combat, suicide, homicide, accident, and terrorism. Dr. Cozza serves as a scientific advisor to several national organizations that focus on the needs of military children and families.