| Karestan Koenen | |
| Birth Name: | Karestan Chase Koenen |
| Birth Date: | 23 June 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Psychiatric epidemiology Psychiatric genetics |
| Workplaces: | Broad Institute Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| Education: | Wellesley College Columbia University Boston University |
| Thesis Title: | The comorbidity of posttraumatic stress disorder and antisocial personality disorder: An epidemiological and genetic study |
| Thesis Url: | http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9928199 |
| Thesis Year: | 1999 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Michael J. Lyons |
| Known For: | Research on post-traumatic stress disorder |
| Awards: | Robert S. Laufer, PhD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (2015) |
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Karestan Chase Koenen (born June 23, 1968)[1] is an American epidemiologist and Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the head of the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute.[2] She is a fellow of the American Psychopathological Association and a former president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2015, she received the Robert S. Laufer, PhD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.[3]