He earned MA and PhD degrees in psychology from the University of Denver, where he studied neuro-psychological functioning in children and youth. Since 2009, he has conducted a variety of program evaluations of mental health, suicide prevention and substance abuse treatment projects. His interests in suicide prevention include suicide postvention, assessing the effectiveness of different prevention training approaches, and evaluating the Zero Suicide approach to systems change. Tom is an instructor in the medical and graduate public health education programs at UVM, where he has developed and taught courses on research methods and statistical analysis.