BG Sutton Quietly Leaves PTSD/TBI Job

Army Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, who ran the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury since it was established in November 2007, left that command on Monday in a very low key ceremony, I'm told.

She now works for Army Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker in a rather unspecified capacity, a typically well-informed source told me, pending retirement in March 2011.

The centers made no public announcement of Sutton's departure, which I find odd because she was the public face of the Defense Department's megabillion dollar a year effort to combat the "invisible wounds of war."

The centers did announce her replacement, Col. Robert W. Saum, an Army psychologist with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Studies from a dual enrollment at the University of San Francisco and Canterbury University in the United Kingdom.