Patrick, a MedServe co-founder, attended East Carolina studying Exercise Physiology and graduating Summa Cum Laude with Honors. After teaching 8th-grade science for three years with Teach for America, Patrick worked for a year as a CNA before attending UNC School of Medicine, where he served as the Co-President of the Whitehead Medical Society, the SOM’s student government. In this role, he created a DEI cabinet position and instituted implicit bias training for all new matriculants to the UNC SOM. He also earned his MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business during medical training. Patrick completed his combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Med-Peds) residency at UNC Hospitals, where he served as the President of the Housestaff Council. He currently works as a Med-Peds hospitalist physician, caring for hospitalized adults and children at UNC Hospitals.