Ken Yeager, Compassionate Leadership in Advocacy Award
Congratulations to alumnus Dr. Kenneth R. Yeager (BSSW ’92, MSW ’93, PhD ’99), for his receival of the Compassionate Leadership in Advocacy Award. Yaeger is a professor emeritus at The Ohio State University’s College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and currently serves as the director of the Stress, Trauma and Resilience (STAR) program at Wexner Medical Center.
The STAR program recognizes the importance of addressing trauma experiences with evidence-based, trauma-informed practices, and was a grant recipient of the Ohio Attorney General’s Expanding Services and Empowering Victims Initiative. Within the program, Yaeger developed The Ohio State University Medical Center Trauma Recovery Center, which provides psychological and psychiatric care for victims of violent crime.
“I’m most proud of the fact that we have built something that continues to help people,” he remarks.
Yaeger also holds an endowed professorship as the David E. Schuller Professor for Patient Compassion and has widely published on topics such as crisis intervention, resilience building, treating co-morbid substance abuse and mental illness.
In recognition of Yaeger’s impact, this award will be renamed the Dr. Kenneth Yeager Compassionate Leadership in Advocacy Award beginning next year.
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