Patricia W. Finn

Patricia W. Finn is an American pulmonologist and academic administrator specialized in the microbiome and immune-mediated pulmonary diseases. She has served as the fifth dean of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine since 2022.

Life Finn was raised by Irish immigrant parents in Alphabet City, Manhattan. She was a first-generation college student and the first in her family to become a physician. Finn completed a M.D. in 1980 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine followed by a residency at the Montefiore Medical Center.

Finn is a clinical pulmonologist who researches the microbiome and immune-mediated pulmonary diseases. She was the Earl M. Bane endowed professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. The same year, Finn was inducted into the American Clinical and Climatological Association.

Finn is married to physician-scientist David L. Perkins.