M. David Rudd

Rudd joined the U as dean of social and behavioral science in 2009. Prior, he was professor and chair of psychology at Texas Tech University. Rudd received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive therapy at the Beck Institute in Philadelphia.He has served as a consultant to several national and international organizations including the United States Air Force, the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense and the Beijing Suicide Prevention and Research Center. In 2010, he co-founded the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah.

Expertise: Veterans issues, including in higher education, suicide in the military, clinical suicidology