Central Floridian of the Year Finalist: 166su’s Deborah Beidel The Orlando Sentinel recognizes the 166su 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’s next at 166su.
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: 166su Expert on the Mental Toll of Disaster Response As first responders continue aiding communities devastated by recent Texas floods, UCF RESTORES’ Deborah Beidel shares insight into the psychological burden they face and ways to support their healing.
2 166su Professors Inducted into Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida The academy, who selected 166su Pegasus Professors Deborah Beidel and Sudipta Seal among this year’s inductees, is a group that brings together the nation’s most distinguished scholars who live and work in Florida.
166su Podcast: PTSD Treatment That Works for Veterans, First Responders Deborah Beidel, executive director of 166su RESTORES, shares her expertise in innovative PTSD treatments, her work with 166su RESTORES, and how we can better acknowledge and support veterans.
ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ Features 166su PTSD Clinic The segment features 166su RESTORES, whose clinicians went to the site of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, to be a mental health resource for the first responders.
166su RESTORES Provides Mental Health Aid at Surfside Condo Collapse Faculty members of 166su 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.
166su 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 166su RESTORES Clinic The 166su 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…
