UT Health San Antonio

Robert Neal Pinckard, Ph.D.

Professor

Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching 2005

Dr. R. Neal Pinckard earned his Ph.D. in Bacteriology/Immunology from the University of Edinburgh Medical School (Scotland) followed by post-doctoral training in Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA. His career in academic medicine began at the University of Arizona Medical School and then as a tenured professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where he has had a productive multidisciplinary research career focused on the cell and molecular basis of acute allergic and inflammatory disease processes.  However for the last several years, Dr. Pinckard has devoted most of his time, effort and responsibilities to teaching (receiving the Presidential Teaching Award in 2006) and service, including becoming a student and faculty advocate within the UT Heath System and the LSOM.