​Dr. Thurston is a Medical Doctor, Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He completed his residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2017. In 2019, after a series of stresses, he sought ketamine treatment for himself and had profound benefit. Since that time he has dedicated his career to furthering the therapeutic potential of ketamine treatment. He has lectured to Medical Schools and Residency Programs about Ketamine and is an active member of the American Society of Ketamine Physicians.