Constance Pechura, PhD

CConstance Pechura, PhD, is a Senior Advisor to the Bravewell Collaborative for Integrative Medicine.  From 2006 until 2011, she was the Executive Director of the Treatment Research Institute (TRI) in Philadelphia and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.  From 1998 to 2006, Dr. Pechura was Senior Program Officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, including leading the Human Capital Portfolio.  From 1988 until 1998, Dr. Pechura was a member of the senior staff at the Institute of Medicine/ National Academies of Science, including serving as Director of the Institute’s Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health.

Dr. Pechura taught health policy in the Stanford in Washington Program from 1993 to 1998, and anatomy and neuroscience courses at George Washington University Medical School and the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.  Dr. Pechura has a B.S. in Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. in Anatomy, with a specialization in Neuroscience, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).  Awards include a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, an Outstanding Teaching award from the USUHS Medical School Class of 1988, the National Research Council’s Special Achievement Award in 1993.