Dr. Lynnette Averill, Ph.D.
Advisory Committee
Dr. Averill is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, Clinical Research Psychologist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, maintains a faculty appointment at Yale School of Medicine and the National Center for PTSD, and is a clinician and innovation expert advisor at NPSYT, PLLC.
Dr. Averill is the daughter of a US Marine who died by suicide after years of struggling with ineffective treatments. His life, and subsequent death, shaped Dr. Averill personally and professionally. The focus of Dr. Averill’s work is on studying and supporting novel, rapid-acting interventions with potential to save lives. Her research focuses on the fine-grained understanding of mechanisms underlying psychedelic medicines, the effects of chronic stress and trauma, and treatment response.
She acted as the subject matter expert for TX House Bill 1802, which passed with almost unanimous bipartisan support and allocates funding for a psilocybin clinical trial for Veterans with PTSD, which Dr. Averill is leading.
