Thomas L. Patterson, Ph.D. 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. Now a 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 Dr. Strathdee have worked as husband-and-wife AIDS researchers on the Mexico-US border for over a decade. Their work inspired Jon Cohen’s book: Tomorrow Is a Long Time.