Lough is clinical director of cardiac surgery at the George Washington University Hospital and a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves Medical Corps. He will be deployed Friday to southern Afghanistan, where he will serve on a forward surgical team for three months. Lough was also deployed to Afghanistan in 2010.
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