Jeffrey L Thomas

Dr. Jeffrey L Thomas serves as Executive Director of Center/Program Operations and Full Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), School of Medicine. He directs operations for the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS), optimizing resources for its mission in science, education, consultation, and leadership.

His educational credentials include:

• PhD in Social Psychology, Wayne State University (1999)
• MA in Social Psychology, Wayne State University (1997)
• BS in Psychology, Lincoln University (1994)

Dr. Thomas specializes in military behavioral health research, with primary focus on Deployment Psychology, Stress Resilience, and Occupational Health Psychology. His work integrates neuroprotection and sleep science to enhance service member readiness, developed through extensive field experience including four combat zone deployments (Iraq x2, Afghanistan, Korea) and international research collaborations across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

With over 85 scientific publications and 10,000+ citations, his career spans 28.5 years of military service culminating in Army Colonel rank (retired July 2022). Key roles included Director of Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (2016-2020) and Assistant Professor at National Defense University (2020-2022), where he taught strategic leadership and biotechnology.