Alan Peterson is a board certified clinical health psychologist, the Aaron and Bobbie Elliott Krus Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, and Chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine within the Department of Psychiatry and School of Medicine at the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is the Associate Director of Research for the Military Health Institute at the UT Health Science Center. He is also a Research Health Scientist at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the Director of the STRONG STAR Consortium and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD. These two consortia include over 150 research collaborators and 30 institutions worldwide. He served previously as the Chair of the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Clinical Health Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Wilford Hall Medical Center. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2005 after 21 years of active duty service including deployments in support of Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom. He has clinical and research expertise in the areas of behavioral medicine, psychological trauma, and resiliency. Since arriving at the UT Health Science Center in 2005, he and his colleagues have secured over $138 million in peer-reviewed research funding to support applied clinical research in San Antonio, throughout Texas, and worldwide.