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Thomas Patterson, M.D.

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  • Infectious Disease - Medical Arts & Research Center - MARC
    210-450-9800
PATTERSON@UTHSCSA.EDU

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Specialties

    • Infectious Diseases
    • Internal Medicine

Other Languages Spoken

  • Spanish
Dr. Thomas Patterson

Dr. Thomas F. Patterson received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University, in Waco, Texas and his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Texas. He completed his internship and residency at Vanderbilt University Medical School, in Nashville, Tennessee and at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut where he also served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.

Dr Patterson currently is a Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. He is also Director of the San Antonio Center for Medical Mycology. 

He has extensive experience in opportunistic fungal infections. His clinical and research interests focus on the diagnosis and treatment of fungal diseases, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. He has been involved in developing new antifungal drugs and in clinical trials of new antifungal compounds. 

Dr Patterson has published and lectured extensively on fungal infections. He is a past member of the ICAAC and IDSA Program Committees and is Editor-in-Chief of the popular mycology website www.doctorfungus.org. He is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty Committee for Infectious Diseases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Past-President of the Texas Infectious Disease Society.

 

Education

1983 M.D. Medicine McGovern Medical School Houston, TX
1979 BA Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude) Baylor University Waco, TX
Residency Internal Medicine Vanderbilt University Hospital Nashville, TN
Residency Internal MedicineYale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT
Internship Internal Medicine Vanderbilt University Hospital Nashville, TN
Postdoctoral FellowshipInfectious DiseasesYale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT
Postdoctoral Fellowship Summer Course in Medical Mycology Duke University Durham, NC
 

Medical School: 
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Internship: 
Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinic
Residency: 
Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinic
Fellowship: 
Yale University School of Medicine

Qualifications

Board Certification:
  • American Board of Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease
  • American Board of Internal Medicine

Media

More about this provider

  • Patterson elected to infectious disease subspecialty board
  • UT Medicine San Antonio places faculty on top doctors lists
  • UT Medicine physicians recognized as Best Doctors in America®
  • UT Health Science Center researcher plays major role in FDA approval of drug for aggressive fungal infections
  • Dr. Jan Patterson named to infectious disease subspecialty board
  • Co-author of New England Journal of Medicine article, Dr. Thomas Patterson, available to speak on fungal meningitis outbreak


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