Ken Ruggiero, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Technology Applications Center for Healthful Lifestyles (TACHL) as well as Director of the Telehealth Resilience and Recovery Program (TRRP). His work centers on the development, evaluation, and dissemination of technology-enhanced interventions to improve population mental health. This includes development of a technology-enhanced stepped-care intervention for traumatic injury patients – TRRP – an established service embedded in MUSC’s Level I trauma center. Dr. Ruggiero’s team is also in the process of launching a training and consultation service to assist other trauma centers in building their own trauma center programs, which leverages their efforts to implement and adapt the TRRP model in collaboration with several partnering trauma centers in the Carolinas. Dr. Ruggiero also has led research on brief self-help interventions for disaster victims in collaboration with American Red Cross. A third major line of work aims to improve quality of care in community mental health service settings via development of scalable, technology-enhanced resources for providers. Ken has led as Principal Investigator more than a dozen federal grants funded by NIH, VA, and Department of Homeland Securities, and has served as Co-Investigator on numerous grants funded by DoD, NIDA, and SAMHSA. He has served as a formal mentor to dozens of trainees and faculty members. He is a standing member of an NIH review panel and serves on four editorial boards.