Patrick grew up in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Boston College with degrees in Biology and Economics. He spent his university years in the wet lab researching Alzheimer’s disease diagnostics. Before going to medical school at Weill Cornell, he worked as a management consultant in the Biopharmaceutical and Medical Device Practice of McKinsey & Company. During medical school, Patrick worked in Dan Landau’s computational biology lab. Patrick’s research focused on therapeutic strategies to stymie tumor evolution. He matched to Stanford for Internal Medicine/Oncology in the TIP program, and spent the year after residency and before fellowship as a Medical Director at C2i Genomics. He loves to travel, surf, and snowboard. He thinks Bay Area hikes are overrated.