William P. Nash, M.D., is an active duty Captain in the U.S. Navy
Medical Corps, with nearly thirty years of active military service. He
is a graduate of the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, in
Chicago, and of psychiatry residency training at Naval Medical Center,
San Diego. In addition to leading two Navy SPRINT crisis response
teams, he has directed two Navy psychiatry residency training programs,
and has served as the Director of Clinical Services of the hospital ship
USNS MERCY. CAPT Nash has been stationed with the Marine Corps since
2000, including deploying to Iraq in 2004 with the 1st Marine Division
as a psychiatrist embedded with ground combat forces. He was awarded a
bronze star medal for his service in Iraq in support of combat
operations there. Since October, 2005, CAPT Nash has been stationed at
Headquarters, Marine Corps, in Quantico, Virginia, where he directs and
coordinates combat/operational stress control policies and programs for
the United States Marine Corps. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor
of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and has
co-edited a book on combat stress injuries due to be released in late
2006.
Courses by this instructor:
Combat Stress Injuries
