Patricia A. Thomas, MD, FACP, FACR

Dr. Thomas is currently Professor of Medicine, and Associate Dean for Curriculum for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, MD. She received her B.A. from Colby College and M.D. from the Rutgers Medical School, and board certification in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Geriatrics. Dr. Thomas joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 1988. She has been an Associate Program Director in the internal medicine residency program for the past 15 years. Her medical education interests include teaching ambulatory medicine, communication skills, and curriculum development.

From 1993-2011, Dr. Thomas was a co-facilitator of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Curriculum Development Workshop, and mentored 35 curricular projects over that period of time, including medical school courses, residency programs and rotations, and CME programs. She developed and directed the Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which ran from 1995-2010.

Dr. Thomas is an editor of the textbook, Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, and co-author and editor of the monograph, Curriculum Development in Medical Education: A Six-Step Approach. As Associate Dean for Curriculum, she was intimately involved in the design and is now charged with implementing the new “Genes to Society” curriculum in the School of Medicine. She has served as an educational consultant for medical education in the United Arab Emirates and Istanbul, Turkey and conducted workshops for medical education in Japan, Korea and Uganda. She continues to teach faculty, internal medicine residents and medical students and has received several teaching awards as well as election to Alpha Omega Alpha.