Thom Burnett M.D., Army Veteran, WA Alumnus, and Mentor

Host Michael Arndt interviews U.S. Army veteran, Dr. Thom Burnett who as a specialist in emergency medicine was commissioned out of med school. He talks of his long military career with many deployments including a stint as chief medical officer at a detainment facility in Afghanistan. As a National Guard officer, Thom also served as a physician embedded with the Virginia State Police SWAT team where he was physician on scene in 2007 at the shootings at Virginia Tech. He currently serves with the Department of Defense as civilian chief scientist and senior defense analyst covering medical intelligence topics. WA has been an important part of his own personal healing and now he serves as a mentor for other vets and first responders.