Dr. Lisa M James is an American clinical psychologist in the Brain Sciences Center at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and Anita Kunin Professor of Healthy Brain Aging in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, where she also holds appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Center for Cognitive Science. Dr. James is broadly interested in identifying factors that promote resilience or confer risk for various conditions affecting veterans, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Gulf War Illness, and cognitive decline, with a particular emphasis on immunogenetics. She received her BA in psychology from Boston University in 1999. She then went on to study Clinical Psychology at Florida State University, where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2009. Her research keywords and expertise include Aging, Dementia, PTSD, Resilience, and Human Leukocyte Antigen.