Kate Rocklein, PhD, DNP, RN

Dr. Kate Rocklein is tenured associate professor at Queen’s University and a Jonas Foundation Veterans Health Scholar, serving since 2010 as subject-matter expert on military neurotrauma and combat survivability in Special Operations Forces (SOF). Dr. Rocklein has co-architected seminal legislative and presidential executive orders addressing combat trauma and military suicide, such as the Blast Overpressure Safety Act passed into the 2025 NDAA. Dr. Rocklein’s work since 2017 aims to advance NATO-aligned survivability initiatives for SOF and special mission personnel. Dr. Rocklein the granddaughter of a US Navy frogman, sister to a USASOC veteran, and former wife of SFC Michael Froede (JSOC/IC), who died by suicide in 2019.

[Conflicts: KR is an unpaid advisory member to the Harvard/MGH/USSOCOM ReBLAST precision research initiative and holds intellectual property copyrights to the theory, scale, syndrome, and framework(s) herein.]