Dr. Donald Patrick is the former executive director of the Texas Medical Board.  Dr. Patrick graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and trained in neurosurgery at Baylor and the University of Washington in Seattle.  He served in the U.S. Army as chief of neurosurgery at 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, Vietnam, and received a Bronze Star Medal for his work there. Dr. Patrick began was a neurosurgeon in Austin for over 23 years. He received a law degree from the University of Texas Austin School of Law in 1996.