Growing up in the Dayton, Ohio area, Dr. Patrik Hornak completed both undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Cincinnati. His internal medicine residency training was performed at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) during which he received the Don W. Powell Award for Excellence and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. He remained at UTMB for fellowship training in infectious diseases and then joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in July 2022. He is a member of the American College of Physicians (ACP), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM), Japan Medical Association in Texas (JMTX), and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).
Clinically, he supervises physicians-in-training and medical students on the infectious diseases consult services at UTMB’s Galveston, League City, and Clear Lake campuses. In the outpatient clinic, he has a special focus on providing HIV/AIDS care including HIV prevention with PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis).
Initially serving as Associate Program Director, Dr. Hornak is currently Program Director of the ID Fellowship Program. He is heavily involved in teaching across the medical education spectrum, including as a small group facilitator and lecturer in the John Sealy School of Medicine, serves as an Associate Program Director in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and is an active participant in a medical education exchange program between UTMB and Teine Keijinkai Hospital in Sapporo, Japan. Along with Dr. Daniel Stanton, he is Clinical Co-Director of UTMB's AIDS Education & Training Center Program which conducts HIV-related workforce development for healthcare professionals in the surrounding region. Finally, he serves as Associate Dean for Global Initiatives in the UTMB John Sealy School of Medicine, providing strategic oversight of the medical school's international educational portfolio and global partnerships.
His educational skills have been recognized with numerous accolades including the Excellence in Mentorship Award (ID Fellowship), recognition as Subspecialty Faculty of the Year (IM Residency), and the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award (McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine at the John Sealy School of Medicine).
In his free time, he enjoys gardening, running, skiing, international travel, and seeking out his next cup of coffee.