Dr. Burgess is a graduate from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California. His OB/GYN training was at Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts. After private practice in Maine for 23 years, where he introduced the first midwife into the community, he relocated to Tampa where he is a physician with the University of South Florida's OB/Gyn practice, he collaborates with Women's Health Care. He and his wife, April, have 5 children.