He is a U.S. Air Force chief flight surgeon, MC-130J pilot, and aerospace medicine specialist. He is currently the chief of aerospace medicine at Cannon AFB and has been selected to be the chief of aerospace medicine at Ramstein AFB in June 2026. Prior to his current assignment he was the Chief Resident of the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Residency in Aerospace Medicine class of 2024. He was originally commissioned through the Health Professions Scholarship Program in 2006 and earned his Doctor of Medicine in 2009 from East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine. He then served an Internal Medicine internship at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, San Antonio, TX, and graduated from the Aerospace Medicine Primary Course at Brooks City-Base, TX, in 2010. He was a distinguished graduate of the MC-130J Mission Pilot Transition course at Kirtland AFB, NM. He is a pilot-physician with over 1200 flight hours in the MC-130J and numerous other aircraft. A full biography can be found in Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2024; 95(6):347 or in the June 2024 newsletter on p. N34.