Suzannah K. Creech, Ph.D.

Suzannah K. Creech, Ph.D., serves as the associate dean of strategic research initiatives at Dell Medical School. She is also a research psychologist for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System and a professor in Dell Med’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

A 2001 graduate of the psychology honors program at The University of Texas at Austin, Creech received her doctorate in clinical psychology at Texas A&M University in 2008. There, she worked in an applied human psychophysiology laboratory, where she examined the influence of trauma exposure on pain perception.

After completing a specialty clinical internship focused on post-traumatic stress disorder and women’s issues, she completed a PTSD treatment fellowship at the Brown Alpert Medical School psychology training consortium. Afterward, she completed a fellowship in PTSD research at the Boston VA. Creech was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Brown Medical School before joining Dell Med.

Creech’s research program spans treatment development, clinical trial and implementation science methodologies within organized health care settings. Her research focuses on improving family functioning, overall well-being and prevention of interpersonal violence and its consequences in populations exposed to stress trauma. Her studies have been funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, National Institute on Drug Abuse and private foundations.