In 1997, he served in a one-year position with the VA's National Center for PTSD and was outstationed at the Gulfport Division of the Biloxi VA. In 1998, he retired from the VA and accepted a tenure track position at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Social Work, based at Long Beach. During his 13-year faculty tenure, he received some 15 awards for teaching and service (to include being the 2006 Mississippi Social Worker of the Year (by NASW) and designated as a "Hero of Katrina" by the University of Southern Mississippi—both awards in recognition of his leadership and counseling/debriefing services to displaced faculty, staff and students. And then he was appointed as a Professor Emeritus of Social Work upon his retirement in 2011. He has made over 350 professional presentations nationwide and numerous media appearances, to include "60 Minutes", "Nightline", National Public Radio, "New York Times", "Boston Globe" and many other newspaper and media interviews. Scurfield was a pioneer in returning to Vietnam with veterans with PTSD to help in their healing process. In 1989 he co-led, with April Gerlock, the first return trip to Vietnam by a therapy group of veterans with PTSD. This trip was filmed by PBS and produced as a documentary in 1990, entitled "Two Decades and a Wake-up". This return trip also was a focus in Scurfield's first book about Vietnam in 2004 (A Vietnam Trilogy. Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress, 1968, 1989 & 2000). Scurfield then co-led the first university-based study abroad course to Vietnam (in 2000, with Dr. Andy Wiest and Dr. Leslie Root). This trip was a major focus of Scurfield's second book about Vietnam: "Healing Journeys: Study Abroad with Vietnam Veterans" (2006). Scurfield also originated in 2007–08 and maintains an extensive on-line War Trauma Resources listing of some 500 public and private resources on his University of Southern Mississippi School of Social Work homepage (http://www.usm.edu/social-work/dr-raymond-scurfield-home-page).