Abraham Verghese, M.D.

The University of Texas Health Sciences

at San Antonio

Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics

Mail Code 7730

San Antonio, Texas  78229-3900

Phone: 210-567-0799

Fax: 210-567-4530

E-mail: Verghese@uthscsa.edu

 Abraham Verghese is the Director of The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and he is Marvin Forland Distinguished Professor of Medicine.  A graduate of Madras University, Verghese trained as a resident and chief resident in internal medicine at East Tennessee State University, and as a fellow in infectious diseases at Boston University. He has served on the faculty at East Tennessee State University, the University of Iowa, and Texas Tech University.  From 1991 to 2002, he was a professor of medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso where he was Grover E. Murray Distinguished Professor. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and infectious diseases.

 In 1990-91, Dr. Verghese attended the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree. His first book, My Own Country, about AIDS in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1994 and was made into a movie. His second book, The Tennis Partner,  was a New York Times  notable book and a national bestseller. He has been the commencement speaker at many medical schools and has an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Swarthmore College. He has published extensively in the medical literature, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal  and elsewhere.