Brigadier General Stephen N. Xenakis, M.D., joined PBS News Hour to discuss the Green Beret who died by suicide in the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. There is an obligation to improve mental health support for service members enduring physical, emotional, and moral trauma.

Brig. Gen. Xenakis is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist with many years of clinical, academic, and management experience. He is the Executive Director of APPA, an advisor for Physicians for Human Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture, and an Adjust Professor at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is also a member of the CERL Executive Board. Read his bio here.

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