Dr. Eric Elbogen is Director of the VA National Center on Veterans Financial Health and Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University. In 2007, he started running money management groups at the Durham VA for Veterans with serious mental illness. He led a Department of Education-funded study testing a money management intervention for veterans. He also conducted a National Institutes of Health-funded national survey of veterans linking financial strain to suicidal ideation and linking money mismanagement and veteran homelessness.