He works as a research chaplain with the Center for Veterans Research and Education at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. At the VA, he is conducting research on trauma, moral injury, and spiritual distress. Tim has been in the Army for over twelve years, serving the past year as the Brigade Chaplain in the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade out of Clackamas, OR . As an Affiliate Fellow of Transforming Chaplaincy, Tim is in the MPH program at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, in the Public Health Administration and Policy Program with declared minors in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.