About Charles Mulligan
Dr. Charles Ray Mulligan Jr., MD is a thoracic surgeon with experience in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1983. He completed Engineer Officer Basic Course, and served as a combat engineer officer with 24th Infantry Division. He was later selected by the Army to attend medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he graduated in 1989.
He completed his general surgery training at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, followed by three years as a general surgeon at McDonald Army Community Hospital.
In 1997 he was selected for a civilian thoracic surgery residency at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. He served as chief of thoracic surgery with 28th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq in 2003-2004 and as chief of general and thoracic surgery in Iraq in 2006-2007.
He retired from active duty in March 2008 and has worked as a member of the Thoracic Surgery Service at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center from April 2008 until September 2012, and as a Thoracic Surgical Oncologist at Centra Health and Pearson Cancer Center in Lynchburg, VA till November 2014.