Jeffrey Thomas PhD

Education

PhD, Social Psychology, Wayne State University, 1999
MA, Social Psychology, Wayne State University, 1997
BS, Psychology, Lincoln University, 1994

Biography

Dr. Jeffrey L. Thomas is the Executive Director of Center/Program Operations (Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine) in support of the Uniformed Services University’s (USU) Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS), and Full Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at USUHS. Dr. Thomas is responsible for directing operations to maximize the effective use of program resources for the CSTS mission of science, education, consultation, and leadership—including developing and implementing operational plans and efficiencies supporting the CSTS Director and the Center’s program management, finance, and research groups.
In July of 2022, Dr. Thomas retired at the rank of Colonel in the US Army after 28 ½ years of service. Dr. Thomas was commissioned in the US Army in 1994 through ROTC at Lincoln University where he received a B.A. in Psychology. He graduated from Wayne State University on an ROTC educational delay with an M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (1999) in Social Psychology.
In Dr. Thomas’s previous military assignments, he served as an Assistant Professor at the National Defense University/Eisenhower School where he taught graduate level courses in strategic leadership and biotechnology (2020-2022). Prior to his professorship at NDU, Dr. Thomas served as the Center Director (2016-2020) for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) directing behavioral health, neuroprotection, and sleep and performance research predicated on delivering evidence-based solutions to improve and optimize the health, decisiveness, and readiness of US Service Members. Previous military research assignments include as the Commander of the US Army Medical Research Unit-Europe (Germany), Department Chief of Military Psychiatry at WRAIR, and as a technical staff officer at the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Logistics, Science, and Technology. Dr. Thomas has deployed on four Mental Health Advisory Teams—twice to Iraq, once to Afghanistan once to Korea. He has also conducted numerous strategic research engagements with international partners in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East on psychological research and support.
As a research scientist, Dr. Thomas has been cited over 10,000 times, publishing over ~ 85 scientific papers and book chapters ‪Jeffrey L. Thomas‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬.