Dr. Patnaik is a physician-scientist with the Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. He is the chair of the Acute Leukemia and Myeloid Neoplasms group in Rochester and is also the Scientific Director of the Epigenetics Developmental Laboratory and the Epigenomics Program. His main clinical and research interests lie in precision genomics and epigenetics and the application of the same to myeloid neoplasms and bone marrow failure syndromes. He directs the Mayo Clinic Clonal hematopoiesis Clinic (CHIP), bone marrow failure syndrome clinic, and the short telomere clinic.