Deepak P Thomas, MD

Biography

Dr. Thomas joined the Pauley Heart Center in the summer of 2015 as an assistant professor, specializing in interventional cardiology. He serves as Medical Director at VCU Health Colonial Square. He works downtown at the MCV Campus as well as VCU Health’s offices in Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights, conducting peripheral vascular and percutaneous coronary interventions. He is board certified in five disciplines: interventional cardiology, general cardiology, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound (RPVI), and internal medicine.

Born in Norfolk, Dr. Thomas received his bachelor of arts degree with honors, in Literatures & Cultures in English, from Brown University in 2002 and was awarded a full scholarship to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, where he was only one of two Americans that year to receive a master's of philosophy postgraduate degree in 18th century British Literature. He returned to the U.S. and earned his M.D. from VCU School of Medicine in 2007, next completing his internship at Yale University in 2008 and his residency at Yale in 2010.

Before joining VCU in 2015, Dr. Thomas was an assistant professor of medicine, practicing primary care as an attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at Washington University School of Medicine and an advanced fellowship in interventional cardiology (level III peripheral vascular and coronary intervention) at the University of Virginia. Dr. Thomas is a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

His volunteer medical work includes serving under Mother Theresa’s Sisters of Charity in Calcutta, India, and providing volunteer medical outreach in inner-city St. Louis with Health Connection. During his time at Yale, Dr. Thomas was a Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar, manning a 50-person medical ward in Eritrea, East Africa.

Read more about a scholarship that Dr. Thomas' family started at VCU.