Mark C. Russell, CDR, USN (Ret), Ph.D., ABPP, was born on Marine Corps Base Twenty-Nine Palms, California. He is dual-Board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical psychology and clinical child and adolescent psychology. A post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Russell received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, now Palo Alto University. He is a retired Navy Commander, and military psychologist with over 26 years of military service. Dr. Russell testified before the congressionally-mandated DoD Task Force on Mental Health regarding his efforts to prevent a mental health crisis as chronicled by USA Today. He is co-author of Treating Traumatic Stress Injuries in Military Personnel (2013), and has also published over 20 articles and three book chapters on war trauma. In 2006, Dr. Russell was awarded the "Distinguished Psychologist Award" by the Washington State Psychological Association. He currently chairs the Psy.D. program at Antioch University Seattle, and is the establishing Director, of the Institute of War Stress Injuries and Social Justice, dedicated to ending repetitive failures in meeting mental health needs of war veterans.