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Dr. Paulus has been the Scientific Director and President of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Tulsa, OK since May 2014. Prior he had been a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and the Director of Telemental Health at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Health Care System. Dr. Paulus has a Google Scholar h-index of 101 and has published over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Dr. Paulus is the Deputy Editor of JAMA Psychiatry, a Series Editor for Current Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience, and is on several editorial boards of top-tier psychiatric journals. He has served on numerous NIH and International Study Sections and is currently on the National Institute of Mental Health Board of Scientific Councilors. The goal for LIBR is to identify disease-modifying processes (DMP) based on circuits, behavior, or other levels of analysis, which – when modulated – change (1) the risk for, (2) the severity of, or (3) the recurrence of a disease such as mood, anxiety, or substance use disorder. Dr. Paulus’ program of research is to delineate DMPs and provide pathways towards the development of process-specific transdiagnostic interventions that have pragmatic utility, i.e. improve a patient’s condition faster with fewer side effects and fewer recurrences, and explanatory value, i.e. refine our understanding of the causal relationships between specific processes and a mental health condition.