Newswise — Paul Ragan, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, is available for interviews on the Israel/Hezbollah Conflict. Dr. Ragan has first-hand experience counseling troops after Desert Storm. He can address a wide range of topics in dealing with psychiatry issues in the military including:

- Acute stress disorders that are often rampant throughout a community when hundreds of thousands of people are displaced.

- The humanitarian crisis brewing.

- Hezbollah's aim to create terror with rockets and the purposes of terrorism in general.

Ragan completed his internship and residency in psychiatry at the National Naval Medical Center with training in psychodynamic psychiatry. He serves as Vanderbilt1s program director for the Faculty and Physician Wellness Program, VUMC1s director of the Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry Service and as director for the Substance Abuse Treatment Program at the VA Hospital in Nashville.