He is also the program director for the newly approved preventive medicine residency. He is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine, completing his preventive medicine residency and his master of public health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In addition, Dr. Pendergrass is residency trained in internal medicine and fellowship trained in endocrinology at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. Dr. Pendergrass graduated from the McGovern School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.