Dr. Velvet M. Patterson, M.D.

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Get to know Anesthesiologist Dr. Velvet M. Patterson, who serves patients in Houston, Texas.

A competent anesthesiologist, Dr. Patterson is the Assistant Director of the POWER Lab, and serves as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Anesthesiology at UTHealth McGovern Medical School.

The vision of UTHealth McGovern Medical School’s Department of Anesthesiology is to invest in their collective future through advancements in anesthetic and critical care, and pain management for their patients. They strive to ensure innovative research and high quality education for the personal and professional enrichment of all faculty, colleagues and partners.

Pertaining to her educational background, Dr. Patterson earned her medical degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in 2009. She completed her residency in general surgery with Christiana Care Health Services in 2011, and her residency in anesthesiology at the Drexel University College of Medicine in 2015. Finally, she completed her fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2016.

Anesthesiology is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during, and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. Anesthesiologists have the primary responsibility of monitoring the patient’s vital signs during surgery. In addition to basic measurements such as pulse, blood pressure, and temperature, they measure the patient’s respiration.

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