Thomas J. Cusack, MD, MS, MBA

• Johns Hopkins University, BA Neuroscience 
• Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, MS Neuroscience 
• Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, MD 
• Johns Hopkins/Sinai Program in Internal Medicine, Internship
• Barrow Neurological Institute at Saint Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Resident, Neurology
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Neurocritical Care Fellow 
• Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, MBA

 Dr. Cusack received his undergraduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, graduating from the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute's combined BA/MS program in Systems Neuroscience. His masters thesis focused on bi-directional communicatory pathways between the brain and immune system as mediated by pro-inflammatory cytokines. He then completed research in the Neuro-Oncology Branch of NIH/NCI/NINDS under the aegis of a Cancer Research Training Award, researching glioblastoma multiforme. He subsequently worked as a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention and Early Intervention before matriculating at Rutgers, where he received his MD. He completed his internship in the Johns Hopkins University/Sinai Program in Internal Medicine followed by neurology residency at the Barrow Neurologic Institute in Phoenix, AZ. While in Arizona he also received an Executive Education Certificate in Health Systems from Arizona State University. He completed his clinical training with a neurocritical care fellowship in the Johns Hopkins Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care.

He worked as faculty in surgical critical care at Washington DC's Hospital Center prior to returning to Baltimore to work as an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and the Program in Trauma at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He divides his clinical time between UMMC and UM Capital Region, where he is helping expand the reach of the University of Maryland's timely and capable neurocritical care resources.

With an MBA in Healthcare Management from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, he is interested in building systems of care that are efficient, compassionate, and high quality, delivering the best possible health outcomes for the people of Maryland.