Dr. Peter W. Pendergrass is a public health physician who has dedicated nine years to population-based medical quality improvement at both state and federal levels. His extensive public health experiences include local, regional, and state levels. His career began at the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District in San Antonio. Subsequently, he held positions as the Bureau Chief of Communicable Disease at Texas Department of Health in Austin and as the Region 1 Regional Medical Director for the Texas Department of State Health Services in Lubbock. He has also served as program director for Public Health and General Preventive Medicine residencies at the Texas Department of State Health Services, The University of Mississippi Health Science Center in Jackson, and the University of Texas Health Science Center in Tyler.
Peter completed his Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to this, he completed an Internal Medicine Residency and an Endocrine Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. Peter obtained his degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Pendergrass is board certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, as well as by the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.