Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pittsburgh Healthcare System. He earned his PhD in Public Health Sciences from WVU and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in suicide prevention at the University of Rochester and the VA Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention. His areas of expertise include interpersonal and self-directed violence among sexual and gender minorities, with specific attention to ways that data about social determinants of health can be integrated into adaptive health care systems. His current VA Health Services Research & Development Career Development Award is the first to focus on transgender health in the VA.