Thomas is completing his two-year Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at the CDC and in the fall of 2022, he’ll be starting a position as a primary care family physician with WakeMed (a North Carolina-based healthcare network) at a practice in Garner, North Carolina. Prior to his stint with the CDC, he was a resident physician at North Colorado Family Medicine in Greeley, Colorado. He graduated from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2017. Thomas is a 2016 Mitchell Scholar. He received a Master's Degree in Public Health from UCC. His thesis examined and compared the exercise habits and attitudes of patients at a rural general practitioner's office in West Cork and at a rural federally-qualified community health center in eastern Tennessee. In addition to his studies in public health, Thomas also took a number of other courses at UCC including Irish language, Irish literature, Irish history, and Celtic culture. He joined a Cork-based Gaelic Football team for several months, the Nemo Rangers, and he had the opportunity to spend time with many of his extended family members who live in Ireland. Thomas obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.