Patricia W. Finn

Finn was raised by Irish immigrant parents in Alphabet City, Manhattan.^[1] She was a first-generation college student and the first in her family to become a physician.^[1] She earned an undergraduate degree in 1976.^[2] Finn completed a M.D. in 1980 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine followed by a residency at the Montefiore Medical Center.^[2] She conducted a pulmonary medicine fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a postdoc in immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health.^[3]

Finn is a clinical pulmonologist who researches the microbiome and immune-mediated pulmonary diseases.^[1] She worked as an educator and investigator at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.^[1] Finn was the Kenneth M. Moser professor of medicine and director of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, San Diego.^[1] She was inducted in to the Association of American Physicians in 2007.^[1] In 2012, Finn moved to Chicago to head the department of medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System.^[4] She was the Earl M. Bane endowed professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.^[1] She was also its associate dean for strategic initiatives and the associate program director of the medical scientist training program.^[1] Finn was president of the American Thoracic Society from 2013 to 2014 and of the Association of Professors of Medicine.^[1] On September 1, 2022, she became the fifth dean of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.^[1] She succeeded interim dean Michael Richards.^[1] She is its first female dean.^[5] The same year, Finn was inducted into the American Clinical and Climatological Association.^[1]

Finn is married to physician-scientist David L. Perkins.^[1]