Dr. Frank Ochberg

Frank Ochberg, MD (born 1940 in New York City), a psychiatrist, mental health expert, and one of the founding fathers of modern psyhotraumatology who he has helped to define and research Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially Victimization Symptoms as distinct subcategory of PTSD, and Stockholm Syndrome, among his many accomplishments for which he received Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He has received the Golden Award of the Academy of Traumatology (1998), and a Senior Fulbright Scholarship (South Africa) in 2002.

Ochberg has recently devoted much of his time to educating journalists about trauma, and, in recognition, the Dart Center's Ochberg Fellowship was named for him. Ochberg Fellows, like Pulitzer prize-winning writers, must demonstrate exceptional writing skills as well as thorough investigation of their topics.