Thomas M. Coffman, MD

Thomas M. Coffman, MD, is the dean for Duke-NUS Medical School. Coffman is also the James R. Clapp Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center.

Coffman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and obtained his MD from the Ohio State University School of Medicine. He undertook his internal medicine and nephrology training at Duke. A national leader in the field of nephrology, Coffman is a past president of the American Society of Nephrology, a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and has served on the Nephrology Subspecialty Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine.