Robert Thomas Slater MD MPH

Summary

• Rob Slater is a family and integrative medicine physician who earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin, his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and his Master’s in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health. Dr. Slater completed residency training in family medicine at Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program in Houston. Following this, he completed a fellowship in Integrative and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, then became an assistant professor at UTMB.
  
  In 2019, Dr. Slater joined the newly-founded medical school as a full-time educator at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio to help develop their medical curriculum. Dr. Slater served as Unit Director for GI, Nutrition, and Appetite (Unit 5) and Circulation, Respiration, and Regulation (Unit 6), and in 2020, he became director of the Developing Osteopathic Clinical Skills (DOCS) program. He has enthusiastically incorporated integrative health and medicine into the formal curriculum at UIW-SOM, which is now integrated into over 70 different large and small group sessions in the first two years of medical school. Dr. Slater is also the director of the Integrative Gastroenterology course of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) Fellowship.