Anthony Hackett

Biography

Dr. Anthony J Hackett is an associate professor of emergency medicine and an instructional associate professor of Medicine at Texas A&M University (TAMU) Vashisht College of Medicine. He practices clinical emergency medicine in the Brazos Valley Region and served as the clerkship director for the emergency medicine clerkship for 4 years. He is currently the director of medical student research at the Vashisht College of Medicine where he and his team are facilitating medical student research opportunities and teaching foundational evidence-based medicine principals to the next generation of clinicians. His focus is on constructing curriculum and mentorship programs that replicate the type of experiences that future physicians will have when participating in research in clinical practice.

Dr. Hackett received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he completed a thesis project mentored by Fumihiko Urano, MD, PhD at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). There, he discovered a passion for translational research, developing an inducible small molecule system to investigate the role of cell stress in the development of immunologic diseases. Following his time in the Urano lab, he joined the UMMS laboratory of nucleic acid vaccines mentored by Shan Lu, MD, PhD where he worked developing novel DNA based vaccines for HIV, H5N1 Influenza and Cholera. Here, he realized his passion for the clinical realm after participating in development and execution of a large HIV vaccine clinical trial and decided to pursue a career in medicine.

He then attended medical school at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and entered the US Army. First, completing a general surgery internship in Augusta Georgia. Followed by an emergency medicine residency at Fort Hood, TX where he also served a year as chief resident.

Following his training, he was residency faculty and research director for the military emergency medicine residency at Fort Hood. He served on the southern regional command’s institutional review board and was the director of both the Fort Hood scientific review board and department of clinical investigation.

After serving in the army, he transitioned to civilian practice but continued to remain active in medical student and resident teaching and research. Additionally, he served as the director of the US Army’s military emergency medicine residency partnership at the St Joseph Regional Hospital in Bryan, Texas. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine (UK).