Thomas Patterson(VIII)
Thomas L. Patterson obtained his AB from San Diego State University, his MSc from the University of Georgia, and his PhD from UC Riverside. He is an evolutionary sociobiologist and an experimental psychologist. A Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, he has renowned expertise on behavioral interventions among HIV-positive persons and those at high risk of acquiring HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Patterson and his wife, Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, have worked as husband-and-wife AIDS researchers on the Mexico-US border for over a decade. In 2016, Dr. Patterson became the first person in the US to have a systemic superbug infection that was cured with intravenous phage therapy. The "Patterson case" rekindled interest in phage therapy in the West and has since been used to successfully cure other patients. Patterson and Strathdee published their memoir, "The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save her Husband from a Deadly Superbug" in 2019.