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Bowling, Jason E

School of Medicine
Medicine
(210) 567-4666
bowling@uthscsa.edu

Dr. Jason Bowling is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the UT Health San Antonio. After completing residency in Internal Medicine, he worked as a hospitalist in private practice for five years before returning to fellowship to complete 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 is in active rotation as the attending faculty physician on the inpatient Infectious Diseases consult service, the inpatient HIV medicine ward team, and also sees Infectious Diseases consults via telemedicine.

In addition to seeing patients, his work has involved hospital epidemiology, infection prevention, antimicrobial 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 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 antimicrobial stewardship and serves as the Chair of the UHS Antibiotic Subcommittee and the Medical Director of the UHS Antimicrobial Stewardship team.

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 and he continues to serve as the Module Co-director for the Attack and Defense module, a 9 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.

Appointments Education Expertise Teaching Publications

9/2016 - Present	Associate Professor / Clinical	UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
9/2016 - Present	Antimicrobial Stewardship & Hospital Epidemiology	Hill Country Memorial Hospital, Fredricksburg, TX
1/2014 - Present	Adjunct Assistant Scientist	Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
1/2014 - Present	Medical Director Antimicrobial Stewardship Team	University Health System, San Antonio, TX
12/2010 - Present	Infectious Diseases Staff Physician	South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, San Antonio, TX
8/2010 - Present	Medical Director Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Clinic	University Health System, San Antonio, TX
8/2010 - Present	Infectious Diseases Staff Physician	University Health System, San Antonio, TX
8/2010 - Present	Hospital Epidemiologist and Medical Director Infection Control and Prevention	University Health System, San Antonio, TX

Date	Description	Institution	# Students
2/2014 - Present	Musculoskeletal & Dermatology	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 200-220, Preparation hours: 3, Student contact hours: 1; Provide presentation on Osteomyelitis. Created a syllabus, designed and provide a presentation that includes interactive clinical scenarios and questions using audience response system. Responsible for writing exam questions for material.
10/2013 - Present	Endocrine & Female Reproductive	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 200-220, Preparation hours: 6, Student contact hours: 2; Provide presentation on Sexually transmitted infections. Created a syllabus, designed and provide a presentation that includes interactive clinical scenarios and questions using audience response system. Responsible for writing exam questions for material.
8/2013 - Present	Mind, Brain & Behavior	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 200-220, Preparation hours: 6, Student contact hours: 2; Provide presentation on Central Nervous system infections. Created a syllabus, designed and provide a presentation that includes interactive clinical scenarios and questions using audience response system. Responsible for writing exam questions for material.
3/2013 - Present	Circulation	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 200-220, Preparation hours: 3, Student contact hours: 1; Provide presentation on Infective Endocarditis. Created a syllabus, designed and provide a presentation that includes interactive clinical scenarios and questions using audience response system. Responsible for writing exam questions for material.
2/2013 - Present	Respiratory Health	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 200-220, Preparation hours: 12, Student contact hours: 4; Provide presentations on Upper respiratory infections, Lower respiratory infections, and Chronic respiratory infections. Created a syllabus, designed and provide presentations that include interactive clinical scenarios and questions using audience response system. Responsible for writing exam questions for material.
10/2012 - Present	Attack and Defense	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 200-220, Preparation hours: 20, Student contact hours: 5; In addition to serving as a Module Co-Director for this module, I also am involved in some of the teaching. I have developed several learning sessions which the students are required to take as an online activity during the week that includes Thanksgiving holiday. Online sessions include: Vaccine Strategies, Epidemiologic Outbreak, Reaction to Chemical Agents, Bioterrorism Agents, Ebola virus, and Ask the Student Doctor (an activity which requires students to research a clinical question and justify their research approach and literature review). I also provide an interactive "Chief Complaint" session using clinical scenarios and audience response system which focuses on a developing a consistent diagnostic approach to infectious causes of cough. I also co-teach a team based learning session on Toxins with my Module Co-director and we provide a 2 hour structured review session at the end of the course.
10/2012 - Present	Attack and Defense	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 200-220, Preparation hours: 384, Student contact hours: 128; Started in 2011 with the initial group of faculty recruited and charged to develop a new, integrated curriculum for Medical students named CIRCLE. Planning phase started in 2011, inaugural 1st year class began in 2012. The purpose of the 9 week long Attack and Defense module is to cover the fundamental concepts of immunology, microbiology, and associated pharmacology as it applies to the practice of medicine. This module is scheduled in the fall semester of the first year and serves as a foundational course to prepare students for organ-specific modules ahead. The aim is to demonstrate the important integration of immunology, microbiology, and pharmacology. Throughout the module, there are opportunities to apply learned concepts to clinically relevant questions and scenarios to prepare students for the rigorous demands of practicing medicine. As a Module Co-director, my role is to make sure that the module covers the necessary objectives and concepts the medical students need to be successful, recruit the necessary faculty content experts to contribute to the module, and review the content and manner in which it is presented to see that we maintain the mission of an interactive and integrated educational process. Other important duties are providing support and direction to the students and addressing any questions and issues that arise.
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
Number of students 1-2; Serve as the Attending Clinical faculty physician for the Infectious Diseases consult service for 2 months. My role is to provide education on the clinical aspects of Infectious Disease to include foundational aspects in diagnosis and management.
7/2010 - Present	HIV/AIDS Inpatient Service	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students 1-2; Serve as the Attending Clinical faculty physician for the HIV inpatient service for 2 months. My role is to provide education on the clinical aspects of HIV and infectious diseases to include foundational aspects in diagnosis and management.
11/2009 - Present	Preparing for Global Health Work	The University of Texas Health Science Center
Number of students: 20-25, Preparation hours: 3, Student contact hours: 1; 2 week course in November covering Tropical diseases and other topics to prepare health care providers for Global health work abroad. Have provided lectures on various Infectious Disease topics. Topics covered thus far include Trypanosomal diseases (Chagas disease, African sleeping sickeness), Schistosomiasis, Leishmaniasis, and Ebola virus disease.

Year	Degree	Discipline	Institution
2000	MD	Medicine	Texas A&M College of Medicine College Station , TX
1996	BA	Biochemistry	Austin College Sherman , TX
	Internship	Internal Medicine	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio , TX
	Postdoctoral Fellowship	Infectious Diseases	University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio San Antonio , TX
	Residency	Internal Medicine	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio , TX

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