Dr. Daniel McConnell, a retired U.S. Army Captain, sustained severe combat injuries in Afghanistan before transitioning to medicine. He earned his medical degree from East Tennessee State University and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University of South Florida's Level 1 trauma center. Board-certified and a Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, he is one of the nation's few upper-extremity amputee emergency physicians. He has served as Chief Medical Officer at a major FEMA/Military COVID response site and is currently the Medical Director at Pinellas County Jail, while also practicing emergency medicine in Tampa Bay, FL.