Dr. Thomas Fister joined University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa as a psychiatrist in the Betty Shirley Clinic. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences, which operates UMC. In addition, Fister teaches resident physicians with The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program at CCHS. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, and his medical degree at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pa. He completed the first two years of his psychiatry residency at the Lake Eire College of Osteopathic Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program and finished the last year of his residency at the Baptist Health-University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Psychiatry Residency Program in Little Rock. Alongside his residency training, Fister earned a master’s degree in business administration from the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio.