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Jason E Bowling, M.D.
Associate Professor/Clinical
Dr. Jason Bowling is an Infectious Disease specialist seeing patients at UT Health San Antonio. He is also an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at UT Health San Antonio. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine, he worked as a hospitalist in private practice for five years before returning to fellowship to pursue subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases. He joined the Division of Infectious Diseases faculty in 2010. Since joining, he has maintained an active role as a clinician. He rotates as the attending faculty physician on the inpatient Infectious Diseases consult service, the inpatient HIV medicine ward team, and the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Clinic for which he is also the Medical Director.
In addition to seeing patients both in the hospital and clinic, his work has involved hospital epidemiology, infection prevention, antibiotic stewardship, and medical education. He is the Hospital Epidemiologist and has served as the Medical Director for Infection Control and Prevention and the Chair of the Infection Control Committee for University Health System (UHS) since 2010. He holds an appointment at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, which maintains an active biosafety level 4 laboratory, where he provides subject matter expertise on infection prevention and clinical infectious diseases. He also is the Chair of the recently created University of Texas Health Science Center Bloodborne Pathogen Expert Review Panel. In his role as a member of the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council Core Group, he provides subject matter expertise on infection prevention and infectious diseases at a regional level.
He is actively involved in antibiotic stewardship and serves as the Chair of the Antibiotic Subcommittee at UHS, the Medical Director of the Antibiotic Stewardship team at UHS, and the Medical Director of the Antibiotic Stewardship team at South Texas Veterans Health Care System.
In addition to providing teaching to trainees of different levels (students, residents, and fellows) during clinical rotations, he has been involved in teaching the medical students in the pre-clinical curriculum since 2010. He was asked to join the initial group of faculty recruited to develop the new CIRCLE pre-clinical curriculum for first and second-year medical students. He continues to serve as the Module Co-director for the Attack and Defense module. This is a nine-week foundational module for first-year medical students that covers medical microbiology, immunology, and applicable pharmacology. He also contributes syllabuses and provides lectures to five other modules throughout the pre-clinical curriculum.
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Professional Background
Education
- 2000 - MD - Medicine - Texas A&M College of Medicine
- 1996 - BA - Biochemistry - Austin College
- Internship - Internal Medicine - University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Postdoctoral Fellowship - Infectious Diseases - University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio
- Residency - Internal Medicine - University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Appointments
- 9/2016 - Associate Professor / Clinical - UT Health San AntonioSan Antonio
- 9/2016 - Antimicrobial Stewardship & Hospital Epidemiology - Hill Country Memorial HospitalFredricksburg
- 1/2014 - Adjunct Assistant Scientist - Texas Biomedical Research InstituteSan Antonio
- 1/2014 - Medical Director Antimicrobial Stewardship Team - University Health SystemSan Antonio
- 12/2010 - Infectious Diseases Staff Physician - South Texas Veterans Healthcare SystemSan Antonio
- 8/2010 - Medical Director Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Clinic - University Health SystemSan Antonio
- 8/2010 - Infectious Diseases Staff Physician - University Health SystemSan Antonio
- 8/2010 - Hospital Epidemiologist and Medical Director Infection Control and Prevention - University Health SystemSan Antonio
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Instruction & Training
- 2/2014 - Present, Musculoskeletal Dermatology, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 10/2013 - Present, Endocrine Female Reproductive, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 8/2013 - Present, Mind, Brain Behavior, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 3/2013 - Present, Circulation, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 2/2013 - Present, Respiratory Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 10/2012 - Present, Attack and Defense, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 10/2012 - Present, Attack and Defense, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 7/2010 - Present, Post Graduate Rotation Supervision, University Health System
- 7/2010 - Present, Post Graduate Rotation Supervision, University Health System Audie Murphy VA Hospital
- 7/2010 - Present, Post Graduate Rotation Supervision, University Health System and Audie Murphy VA Hospital
- 7/2010 - Present, Clin Infectious Disease, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 7/2010 - Present, HIV/AIDS Inpatient Service, The University of Texas Health Science Center
- 11/2009 - Present, Preparing for Global Health Work, The University of Texas Health Science Center
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Research & Grants
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Publications
Abstract
Bowling JE, Harris AD, Morgan D, Estrella R, Levine S, Patterson JE. Universal Glove and Gown Use is Associated with a Significant Reduction in the Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Rate in the MICU at an Academic Medical Center: 5 Years of Evaluation; 2016 Oct. (ID Week - Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America). Badawy J, Vasko R, Bowling JE, Anstead G. Doctor, Doctor, I?m Coughing Up My Lung National Harbor, MD; 2015 Mar. (Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting). Habib SA, Bowling JE. Hole-In-One: A Rare Cause Of Cavitation Las Vegas, NV; 2014 Mar. (Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting).
Journal Article
O'Hara LM, Morgan DJ, Pineles L, Li S, Bowling JE, Drees M, Jacob JT, Anderson DJ, Warren DK, Harris AD. Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures? Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2017 Jun;38(6):736-739. Bowling JE and Taylor BS. Isolation Precautions for Hospitalized Patients: The Challenges of Identifying Unintended Individual Consequences and Measuring the Prevention of Community Harm Journal of General Internal Medicine 2017 Mar;32(3):238-240. Croft LD, Harris AD, Pineles L, Langenberg P, Shardell M, Fink JC, Simoni-Wastila L, Morgan DJ, Benefits of Universal Glove and Gown Primary Investigators: Shahryar SK, Price CS, Gadbaw JJ, Drees M, Kett DH, Munoz-Price LS, Jacob JT, Herwaldt LA, Sulis CA, Yokoe DS, Maragakis L, Lissauer ME, Warren DK, Carver RL, Anderson DJ, Calfee DP, Bowling JE, Safdar N. The Effect of Universal Glove and Gown Use on Adverse Events in Intensive Care Unit Patients Clinical Infectious Diseases 2015 Aug;61(4):545-553. Morgan DJ, Pineles L, Shardell M, Sulis C, Kett DH, Bowling J, Belton BM, Harris AD; the BUGG Study Primary Investigators. Effect of Chlorhexidine Bathing and Other Infection Control Practices on the Benefits of Universal Glove and Gown (BUGG) Trial: A Subgroup Analysis Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2015 Feb;. Li J, Echevarria KL, Hughes DW, Cadena JA, Bowling JE, Lewis JD 2nd. Comparison of cefazolin versus oxacillin for treatment of complicated bacteremia caused by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2014 Sep;58(9):5117-5124. Harris AD, Pineles L, Belton B, Johnson JK, Shardell M, Loeb M, Newhouse R, Dembry L, Braun B, Perencevich EN, Hall KK, Morgan DJ; Benefits of Universal Glove and Gown (BUGG) Investigators, Shahryar SK, Price CS, Gadbaw JJ, Drees M, Kett DH, Mu?oz-Price LS, Jacob JT, Herwaldt LA, Sulis CA, Yokoe DS, Maragakis L, Lissauer ME, Zervos MJ, Warren DK, Carver RL, Anderson DJ, Calfee DP, Bowling JE, Safdar N. Universal Glove and Gown Use and Acquisition of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the ICU JAMA 2013 Oct;310(15):1571-1580.
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Clinical
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease
- American Board of Internal Medicine