Marine veteran, psychiatrist, and Medical Director of the BRAVE Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Burek is one of the few physicians in the country who is both combat-experienced and clinically specialized in the invisible wounds that affect our veterans and first responders - PTSD, traumatic brain injury, sleep disruption, nightmares, and the unique psychological load of military service.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, deployed to Iraq in 2003, and after transitioning home, devoted his career to fixing the broken system vets come home to. Today he leads BRAVE, Midwest’s first comprehensive TBI/PTSD recovery program specifically built for veterans and first responders, regardless of discharge status or ability to pay. This is exactly the conversation we should be having: hard truths, real solutions, no politics. Just a warrior-turned-healer helping his own.