Thomas is a primary care family physician with WakeMed (a North Carolina-based healthcare network) at a practice in Garner, North Carolina. Before that, he completed a two-year Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at the CDC. 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. As a 2016 Mitchell Scholar, Thomas 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 took several other courses at UCC, including Irish language, Irish literature, Irish history, and Celtic culture. He joined a Cork-based Gaelic Football team, the Nemo Rangers, and spent 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, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.

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