Dr. Brett A. Wyrick, D.O., M.P.H.

Dr. Brett Wyrick

Deputy Federal Air Surgeon

Office of Aerospace Medicine

Federal Aviation Administration

Dr. Brett Wyrick serves as the Deputy Federal Air Surgeon (AAM-2) in the Office of Aerospace Medicine (AAM) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He is the Senior Executive responsible for the AAM-100 Program Management Division, AAM-200 Medical Specialties Division, AAM-800 Drug Abatement Division, and the nine Regional Flight Surgeon Offices at various locations throughout the United States. He first joined the FAA in 2016 as the Regional Flight Surgeon for the Northwest Mountain Region, and he served with the United States Air Force prior to service with the FAA.

Dr. Wyrick is dual Board Certified in General Surgery and Aerospace Medicine; he is a Fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons (FACOS), and a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA). He received his Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) degree from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, Missouri in 1989, and completed his surgical training at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1994. He went on to earn a Master of Public Health degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2008, and he completed his Residency in Aerospace Medicine at Brooks AFB, Texas in 2009. Dr. Wyrick was in the private practice of General Surgery for ten years prior extended Active Duty with the United States Air Force. He served four combat tours in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. His previous assignments include Air National Guard Assistant to the Air Combat Command Surgeon, Command Surgeon for the Air National Guard, Deputy Surgeon General of the National Guard Bureau, and Assistant Adjutant General (Air) of the Hawaii Air National Guard. Major General Wyrick retired from military service in 2023 as the Senior Air National Guard Advisor to the Department of the Air Force Surgeon General.

Dr. Wyrick has received numerous awards and decorations, and he holds the aeronautical rating of Chief Flight Surgeon with over 900 flight hours. He is also a Private Pilot and a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner for the FAA. He is married to Dr. Maryam Allahyar-Wyrick who is the Director of Research, Development, and Technology for Federal Railroad Administration, and they live with their youngest son in Northern Virginia. Both of their older children are officers in the United States Air Force.

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