Captain (O-6) Thomas Janisko, U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) serves as the Command Surgeon and Director of Psychological Health for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he provides senior policy guidance on all physical health, wellness, public health, deployment health, psychological health/research psychologist support, holistic health and fitness, military substance abuse prevention, family advocacy, and mental resilience/operational stress control programs for the 38,000-person command. In that role he certifies, instructs, and deploys the USACE Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Team, which provides evidence-based, compassionate, and discreet peer support across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, coordinates the employee assistance program to increase resilience and growth throughout the workforce, and coordinates the suicide prevention program and military drug use prevention program.
His operational deployments include South Pole Antarctica, Afghanistan, Germany, Greenland, Haiti, Kuwait, Liberia, Columbia, and throughout Europe where he has provided operational behavioral health and health subject matter expertise. He clinically practices operational behavioral health within the National Capitol Region and serves on several interagency behavioral health / deployment health boards.
Previous assignments include: The Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services where he served as a subject matter expert on continental U.S. disaster patient movement and in that role medically supported the District of Columbia Army National Guard rotary wing and fixed wing units. The Joint Staff Surgeon’s Office where he supported worldwide Combatant Command public health preparedness.
Capt. Janisko holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Master of Science from the University of New England, a Master of Strategic Studies degree from the U.S. Army War College, a Senior Executive Fellow Certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He is a certified crisis negotiator, certified employee assistance professional, registered neutral/mediator, certified professional coach, certified master resilience trainer, certified trauma professional, DOT substance abuse professional, a graduate of the U.S. Army Flight Surgeon School, U.S. Army Basic Space Cadre Course, U.S. Army Master Resilience Trainer Course, U.S. Army Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties Course, U.S. government Crisis Negotiator’s Course, NOAA Dive Medical Officer Course, HHS Tactical Medical Professional Course, and maintains board-certification/state registration as a Physician Associate with specialty in behavioral health and a state registration as a neutral/mediator.
His publications include the subject of public health preparedness and response, behavioral health, and operational behavioral health.