Tushar Patel is a consultant in the Department of Transplantation and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Florida. He holds the Alfred D. and Audrey M. Petersen Professorship, and the distinction of serving as the James C and Sarah K Kennedy Dean of Research at Mayo Clinic in Florida between 2014 and 2022.
Dr. Patel earned his medical degree at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He subsequently trained at Mayo Clinic where he completed a residency in internal medicine, a fellowship in gastroenterology, and specialized training as a clinician-investigator in the Mayo Clinic Clinician-Investigator Program. He currently holds the academic rank of Professor of medicine and as Professor of cancer biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.
His clinical expertise is in transplant hepatology and hepatobiliary cancers. His laboratory-based research program incorporates basic discovery studies aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer formation in the liver and bile ducts, with translational studies that seek to identify novel therapies for these cancers. He has been a pioneer in the emerging discipline of RNA nanotechnology with his research on the study and therapeutic applications of non-coding RNA and cellular nanotherapeutics. His work has been supported by the NIH Common Fund through the Office of the NIH Director; National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; National Cancer Institute; and the National Science Foundation.
Dr Patel's professional activities have included serving as an associate editor for Hepatology and on the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles editorial board. He has also served as a chair or peer reviewer for the National Institutes of Health in the United States and for several other funding agencies in other countries. He is a thought-leader within the broader academic community, having served as an External Program Consultant for the NIH Common Fund, on the Board of the Florida Research Consortium, and on the State of Florida Biomedical Research Advisory Committee.
Dr Patel's work has been highly cited and recognized. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited more than 65,000 times. He has an H-index of 104 and he os recognized within the Stanford list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide.