Today, we have the distinct pleasure of welcoming Native Washingtonian, poet and writer, psychiatrist, and retired career US Army Colonel, Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie.
She’s a guest who stands at the intersection of history, trauma, medicine, and language. Cameron, AKA Cam, is an MD, a Master of Public Health, and a forensic psychiatrist with special expertise in military and veterans issues. She’s a retired Army Colonel and has held numerous leadership positions within Army Medicine, including as the psychiatry consultant.
She trained at Harvard, George Washington University, Walter Reed, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and has completed fellowships in both forensic and preventative and disaster psychiatry.
She remains a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and at Georgetown University and George Washington University School of Medicine.
An internationally recognized expert, she brings a unique public health approach to the management of disaster and combat mental health issues. Her assignments and other missions have taken her to Korea, Somalia, Iraq, and Cuba. She has over 250 publications, mainly in the areas of forensic disaster, suicide ethics, military combat, psychiatry, and women’s health issues.
She’s currently the co-chair of the Military and Veterans Committee with the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
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