Past BVA National President Dr. Thomas Zampieri is the subject of a July 11 feature story by Maya Jordan, Public Affairs Specialist for the VA Houston Health Care System. Click the button below to read more.

The article outlines Tom’s personal history as a U.S. Army Medic, a Physician’s Assistant at the Houston VA Medical Center, the diagnosis of a genetic degenerative eye disease, and his experiences as an inpatient trainee at the Southwestern Blind Rehabilitation Center in Tucson, Arizona. It also details his subsequent motivation to obtain a Ph.D. in Political Science and serve his fellow blinded veterans for a combined 17 years as both the BVA Director of Government Relations and a member of the Association’s Board of Directors.

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