Thomas Burke, MD, FACEP

Thomas F. Burke, MD is the Chief of the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at the Massachusetts General Hospital as well as a practicing emergency physician. He was the founding Director of the MGH Center for Global Health. Prior to the MGH, Dr. Burke was Associate Clinical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a senior faculty member for the hospital's Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Burke currently holds a senior faculty position at Harvard Medical School.

During his seven years in the U.S. Army Dr. Burke had several overseas deployments and served as the doctor for the FBI Hostage Rescue Team at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. In 1995 Dr Burke helped establish a health system for 28,000 refugees in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and later that same year, as the Bosnian crisis escalated, he directed the emergency department in the U.S. Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Dr Burke successfully started 3 companies and ran an NGO that developed medical education systems in Eastern Europe. He is widely published and serves on several boards, including Americans for UNFPA, I-Scale, and the National Youth Leadership.