Alec C. Beekley, MD, FACS

Dr. Beekley, a general surgeon, spent 14 years on Active Duty in the U.S. Army where he deployed on 3 separate occasions to Operation Eduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. On his last deployment with the 28th Combat Support Hospital, he served as the director of the Deployed Combat Casualty Research Team. Dr. Beekley has authored or contributed to several articles on combat casualty care. He performed the initial published clinical study on tourniquet us in Operation Iraqi Freedom. After separating from the Army, Dr. Beekley took a position as a general surgeon in the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Division and Bariatric Surgery Division at Thomas Jefferson University.