Dr. Helena Patten completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington in her hometown of Seattle. She earned her medical doctorate at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where she was elected into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Texas in Austin and subsequently completed her dermatology residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She has authored numerous publications on a variety of topics including cutaneous malignancies and infectious diseases.