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Dr. Stacey Young-McCaughan is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. She has researched the effects of exercising on cancer and PTSD. She received her basic nursing degree from the University of Wyoming, her master’s degree in oncology nursing from Yale University, and her doctoral degree in research nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Young retired from the Army Nurse Corps as a colonel after a 29-year career culminating as Chief of Clinical Investigation for Brooke Army Medical Center, to join the faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio seven years ago. She helps direct and coordinate the STRONG STAR Research Consortium funded by the U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop and evaluate the most effective early interventions possible for the detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related conditions i