Experience
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Air Force Flight Surgeon
My experience in the military began in 1967 at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas and took me to Clark Air Base as a Flight Surgeon / Director of Military Public Health in the Republic of the Philippines. My time in the Philippines included one year as an assistant on the Neurosurgical Service and Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY) service in the Republic of Vietnam.
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Army Psychiatrist
After many years outside the military, I decided to return to serve soldiers and worked for several years at Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia in their Behavioral Health-Residential Treatment Facility (Inpatient Addictions).
Academic Experience
Over the years, I have worked for several distinguished academic institutions. I have been a Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
In psychiatry, I have taught students in Boston, in my position as Instructor, Attending Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Addiction Services in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Harvard Medical School.
Private Practice
I have established and maintained successful neurosurgical private practices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beckley, West Virginia.
Recognizing a need for services in the area, I founded MDRT, Inc., Raleigh Regional Cancer Center, in Beckley, West Virginia. And for six years, as Medical Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program at Forsyth Memorial Hospital, I had the chance to work with patients who bridged my work as a neurosurgeon and psychiatrist.