Experience

Over the past several years of providing care to U.S. Military Veterans, Dr. Elisseou has cared for thousands of patients with a history of trauma—military sexual trauma (MST), combat-related trauma, homelessness, and other forms. Her patients taught her that there is a need for a universal, trauma-informed approach to care. In order to help meet this need, Dr. Elisseou read extensively about TIC, created a novel framework for how clinicians should examine survivors of various forms of trauma, and has taught this framework broadly. Dr. Elisseou is considered the national expert in trauma-informed physical examination.