Jeffrey Tessier, M.D.

Biography

Jeffrey Tessier, M.D., is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He practices at the Aston Clinic, University Hospitals, and Parkland Hospital. He specializes in general and transplant infectious disease.

Dr. Tessier earned his medical degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, followed by an additional year as Chief Resident and a staff appointment as an internist and associate program director.

He was transferred to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda (now the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) just prior to the events of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax bioterrorism attacks. He left active duty to receive advanced training in infectious diseases through a fellowship at the University of Virginia. During and after his clinical fellowship, he conducted a research fellowship on the role of bacterial protein toxins in the pathogenesis of anthrax, a disease he became interested in due to his experiences in the Navy.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Tessier served as director of antimicrobial stewardship and as a transplant infectious diseases consultant for John Peter Smith Health System in Fort Worth, Texas. He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2018.

Dr. Tessier’s research interests include clinical outcomes in transplant patients, Clostridium difficile infection, and pathogenesis of anthrax meningitis. He is the author of numerous articles and gives national and international presentations and lectures. He serves as a reviewer for Clinical Infectious Diseases, Lancet Infectious Diseases, New England Journal of Medicine, Progress in Transplantation, Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, Surgical Infections, and Wound Repair and Regeneration.

He is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Society of Transplantation, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Surgical Infection Society of North America, the American Society for Microbiology, and other professional organizations.