Dr. Wendy Thanassi is board certified in emergency medicine, having trained at Stanford Medical School and Yale residency programs. She began a career in occupational health with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California and over the ensuing decade developed an expertise in tuberculosis testing, speaking and publishing widely nationally and internationally. Dr. Thanassi became a national consultant for the VA, is a professor at Stanford Medicine, sits on the Advisory Council for the Elimination of TB to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is the U.S. Representative to the International Congress on Occupational Health.