Dr. Patino received his medical degree and pursued advanced training in neurology at his home country of Colombia. He was then at the University of Michigan Neuroscience Graduate Program doing research on genetic epilepsies, first as a doctoral student in neuroscience and later as a postdoctoral fellow.

He is currently an assistant professor at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, where his teaching focus in active learning techniques He has experience with flipped classroom and TBL, and is part of the core TBL team that supervises the development and delivery of TBL exercises in the preclinical courses.