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David R. Schmit, MD

Hospital Medicine Fellowship Co-Director

Associate Professor/Clinical

Dr. David Schmit is a published, board-certified Hospitalist who joined UT Health San Antonio as an Assistant Professor/Clinical in July 2012, rising to the rank of Associate Professor/Clinical in September 2018 and acting as Co-Director of the Hospital Medicine fellowship program beginning in 2022. Dr. Schmit earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry (graduating with General and Departmental Honors) from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2004 before going on to earn his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio in 2008. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio in 2011 (serving as Chief Resident from 2011 to 2012). Dr. Schmit is a six-time recipient of the "Outstanding Faculty for Medicine Clerkship Award" (2013-2019) and has also received the "VA Teaching Award" (2013), "Outstanding Medicine Resident" (2011), "Outstanding Medicine Intern" (2009), the "Wallace McNutt Award" (2005), and the "Oliver Lambert Prize for Excellence in Biochemistry".