Philip Thomas, MD
Dr. Philip G. Thomas completed his medical education at Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, and residency at Post-graduate Institute, Chandigarh, India in 1980. He then did general and GI surgery until 1992, before coming to the University of Pittsburgh, 1993-1995, to do a Fellowship in multi-organ transplant surgery. He then returned to India to a Professorship in St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, heading a unit of general and transplant surgery until 1999, and then served as Chairman of Surgery until 2002. Dr. Thomas returned to the US in 2002 for a sabbatical year in Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplant at the University of Pittsburgh Starzl Transplant Institute from 2002-2003.
He joined The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in August 2003, where he holds the title of tenured Associate Professor of Surgery. He has particular interest in the use of Tolerogenic protocols with minimization of long term immunosuppression and has published on the safety of this approach in high risk renal transplant patients. His clinical work includes kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation. He has excelled in teaching, winning the Golden Scalpel Award for Excellence in Surgical Teaching at UTMB, while planning curriculum and implementing innovative teaching methods for medical students and residents rotating through transplant surgery.