Central Floridian of the Year Finalist: UCF鈥檚 Deborah Beidel The Orlando Sentinel recognizes the UCF RESTORES executive director for leadership in trauma treatment and first responder care.
Founders’ Day 2026: Faculty Recognized for Excellence The annual event spotlights approximately 280 faculty for excellence, years of service, and other contributions that drive what鈥檚 next at UCF.
Deborah Beidel Honored at Founders’ Day as a Big 12 Faculty of the Year Beidel is a Pegasus Professor internationally known for her ground-breaking research and effective treatments for veterans, first responders and emergency workers with PTSD.
Behind the Rescue: UCF Expert on the Mental Toll of Disaster Response As first responders continue aiding communities devastated by recent Texas floods, UCF RESTORES鈥� Deborah Beidel shares insight into the psychological burden they face and ways to support their healing.
2 UCF Professors Inducted into Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida The academy, who selected UCF Pegasus Professors Deborah Beidel and Sudipta Seal among this year’s inductees, is a group that brings together the nation鈥檚 most distinguished scholars who live and work in Florida.
UCF Podcast: PTSD Treatment That Works for Veterans, First Responders Deborah Beidel, executive director of UCF RESTORES, shares her expertise in innovative PTSD treatments, her work with UCF RESTORES, and how we can better acknowledge and support veterans.
ABC鈥檚 鈥楪ood Morning America鈥� Features UCF PTSD Clinic The segment features UCF RESTORES, whose clinicians went to the site of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, to be a mental health resource for the first responders.
UCF RESTORES Provides Mental Health Aid at Surfside Condo Collapse Faculty members of UCF RESTORES spent days supporting the mental health of first responders who are working to recover bodies buried in the rubble from the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building.
UCF RESTORES Starts New Mental Health Services in Orange County for COVID-19 The work will focus on mental health services for residents of Azalea Park and essential workers in Orange County at no cost.
U.S. Army Awards $1 Million to UCF RESTORES Clinic The UCF RESTORES Clinic was recently awarded $1 million from the U.S. Army to continue development of its own virtual-reality software to treat active-duty service…
