Thomas Betjeman, MD is a family physician by training who currently works at Presbyterian hospitals both as a hospitalist and an ED physician. He completed medical school at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, residency at the University of New Mexico rural program in Santa Fe, and completed a fellowship in Global Health at UCSF Contra Costa in California.

He currently works half-time as a hospitalist at Socorro General Hospital, where he is also the Med/Peds director and Chief of Staff, and covers emergency department shifts at the Presbyterian facilities in Albuquerque on a PRN basis. He is also the medical director for the NRAO Very Large Array EMS service.

Originally from New York, he came to New Mexico after living many years living and working abroad (including Mali, Indonesia, Malawi, and Peru), primarily following the gravity of rural medicine, multicultural living, and the great outdoors.

He is an avid explorer, snowboarder, mountain biker, rock climber, and surfer.