I think it is to really push that research agenda, given those three thrusts. We have sat back with the whole trauma thing. We joined along, and for years we were happy to go along for the ride. Clearly right now, we're the leaders. We're leaders within this country, and other nations are looking to us. We need to start contributing to the dialogue, not just applying what is out there. That's the key.
There have been many, many large studies—meta-analysis they call it—where time and time again, the evidence-based treatments for PTSD seemed to work less in military people and veterans. In 1994, Bessel van der Kolk looked at Prozac. It works in car accidents, rapes, and not so much with vets.
There seems to be something unique that warrants study. We're not going to replicate all the civilian studies on depression and things. We need to do the knowledge translation to see things that are working out there, develop things, and see if things are working. Really, the emphasis is on those three thrusts.
There are a couple of NATO panels as well, on leveraging technology and things, which I'm involved with. I think psychiatry has been very slow in advancing in terms of adapting technology. We're still the pen and paper people, writing things down. There have been 20 to 30 years of incredible biological research that really hasn't translated into clinical practice. It's part of my hope to do that.