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Gregory M Anstead, M.D.

Professor/Clinical

Dr. Gregory M. Anstead has loved creepy crawly things since he was a kid, when his parents let him turn the basement into a zoo.  He started college at Northern Kentucky University with aspirations to be a field biologist, but was seduced by the beauty of the interplay of molecules to pursue a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Illinois.  After an unsatisfying NIH post-doc in chemistry at the State University of New York, he entered medical school at the University of Illinois, and then did an internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Kentucky.  He then decided to enter medical field with the creepy crawlies, infectious Diseases, and completed a fellowship at UT Health Science Center San Antonio in 2000.   

            Dr. Anstead is currently professor of medicine at UT Health San Antonio and staff physician at University Hospital, San Antonio, and the South Texas Veterans Healthcare System.  He has been a preceptor for the infectious diseases fellows' clinic for over 20 years. His main professional interests are parasitic and vector-borne diseases, HIV clinical care, endemic mycoses, and the historic epidemiology of infectious diseases.  He has published over 70 peer-reviewed medical and scientific papers and over 40 book chapters.  He was a recipient of the University of Texas Presidential Teaching Excellence Award in 2012 and received the Outstanding Faculty Member from the fellows in the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2018.  He has four sons, ranging in age from 10 to 26 years old.  His hobby is observing and photographing the natural world.