Dr. Burton received his medical degree from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and completed his residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. After working as a Hospitalist in Birmingham, he returned to the VA for the VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program in quality improvement and patient safety. He joined the faculty of UT Southwestern in 2010, where he has held positions as a Quality Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer. His clinical efforts have centered around teaching Hospital Medicine and Perioperative Medicine. He is currently the Medical Director for the General Internal Medicine Perioperative Clinic.