Vincent Gregory Pons MD

Summary

• Vincent Pons, MD, is an Infectious Disease specialist based in California .He completed his medical education at Cornell UniversityMedical College, in New York in 1973, followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1973 to 1975. He pursued further specialization with fellowships in Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (1976-1978) and Johns Hopkins University (1978-1979). Dr. Pons achieved the level of Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and has contributed to the field with several publications, including studies on influenza,neurosurgery, orthopedic infections, oropharyngeal candidiasis in HIV-infected patients and pharmacokinetics in CNS abscess fluid, which have been cited multiple times in scientific literature. At UCSF,an award in his name is given to the outstanding physician in clinical practice of medicine and infectious diseases bi annually.