Dr. Shannon Reynolds Miles:
Shannon Reynolds Miles is a postdoctoral fellow at the South Central Mental
Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans
Affairs Medical Center in Houston, Texas. She received her bachelor’s degree from
Auburn University in 2006 and was introduced to psychiatric classification by Roger
Blashfield. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tulsa in 2013 working with
Al Harkness and John McNulty on personality and adaptive systems research. Her
current research interests are personality, emotions, and psychiatric classification.
She is investigating how emotion regulation relates to posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) and aggression, and how increasing emotion regulation can improve PTSD
treatment outcomes in veteran samples. She will complete her fellowship in the
summer of 2015.