Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Boston University

Dr. Lynda A. King earned her Ph.D. (Measurement, Research Design, and Statistics) in 1979 from the University of Washington in Seattle. From 1979 to 1995, she was a member of the Psychology Faculty at Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, where she taught courses in statistics, program evaluation, and grantsmanship, and received several awards for both teaching and research achievements. Since 1995, she has been affiliated with VA Boston Healthcare System, primarily the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, but also the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), where she continues to direct seminars in research methods at the pre- and postdoctoral levels. Dr. King holds a joint appointment with the Division of Psychiatry at the Medical Campus.

Dr. King has expertise in psychometric theory and techniques and is an author of several published measurement instruments. Her program of research relates to stress, trauma, and health, with emphasis on war-related stress symptomatology and gender-related conflict. Her work also addresses specific quantitative methods applied to topics in trauma and PTSD. Along with Dr. Daniel King, she has headed a number of funded projects, including a study of factors contributing to domestic violence among Vietnam veteran families, a health services project to document dimensions of gender awareness (ideology, sensitivity, and knowledge) in the delivery of health care to women veterans, an investigation of psychosocial risk and resilience factors that may be implicated in Gulf War illnesses, and the documentation of late-onset stress symptomatology among aging military veterans. She is currently a member of the team that plans and implements the Conference on Innovations in Trauma Research Methods, which is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Dr. King has served as a reviewer for numerous journals, including: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Sex Roles, and others; Editorial Board: Assessment, Psychological Assessment, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, and Traumatic StressPoints. She also served as the Associate Editor for Psychological Assessment from 2003-2005.

Dr. King is the Co-Recipient of the Robert S. Laufer Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Field of PTSD. This award was presented in 2002 at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.