Dr. Kus is the medical director of Opus Medical, the only physician-led medical and nurse case management company working with Texas injury benefit programs and workers’ compensation programs in many states. Dr. Kus is an experienced occupational medicine physician, professor and U.S. Navy veteran. Working under the direction of Dr. Melissa Tonn, Dr. Kus provides causation and extent of injury peer reviews.

Dr. Kus received his medical degree from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and a master’s in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his residency in occupational and environmental medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and an emergency medicine residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dr. Kus’s service in the U.S. Navy includes serving as the dive medical officer for FIRST Naval Construction in Little Creek, Virginia, where he managed primary care for 140 members of the Navy Underwater Construction teams and achieved recognition as a key contributor to NATO Operation Seabreeze in Odessa, Ukraine as the only NATO physician (2007-2008). Dr. Kus also has served as diving medical officer for SEAL Team EIGHTEEN, where he advised his commanding officer on operational medical concerns and team members’ health.

In the private sector, Dr. Kus has held several leadership roles in the field of occupational medicine, and he currently serves as assistant adjunct professor in the Duke University Occupational and Environmental Medicine department.

Dr. Kus is licensed to practice medicine in Texas, Virginia, Florida and North Carolina. He is the vice president of Southern College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and secretary/treasurer of Texas College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He is a member of American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.