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Lynnette A. Averill, PhD

Director of Research

Associate Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine

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Lynnette A. Averill, PhD, is the director of Research at The Menninger Clinic. In addition to her roles at Menninger, she is an associate professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. She is also a clinical research psychologist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.

 

A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Averill's expertise includes suicidality, trauma and psychedelic medicines.

 

She is a founding board member of Source Research Foundation, associate editor of the journal Chronic Stress and clinical director of the Emerge Research Program at Baylor College of Medicine.

 

Dr. Averill earned her doctorate from the University of Utah.