Dr. Postal received his BA in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1990, his M.S.W. from Boston College in 1995 and his M.D. from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in 2007. After completing his internship in Family Medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2008, he served as a Flight Surgeon at Camp Humphreys, Korea, before returning to complete his psychiatry residency (2013) and his child psychiatry fellowship (2014) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. After retiring from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2023, he joined the MUSC faculty as a Clinical Associate Professor in the department of psychiatry.