Outside of being a husband and father to 4 wonderful kids, my interests include educating and training the current and next generation of physicians, pharmacists, and nurses. I have a unique background as a healthcare provider and medical educator in that I am a nurse (BSN, RN), clinical pharmacist (PharmD), and a physician (MD). While working on my PharmD at Texas Tech Univ Health Sciences Center, I worked as an RN in a level 1 surgical trauma ICU and emergency department. Upon obtaining my PharmD, I then completed a post-doctoral pharmacy residency at the University of Texas at Austin and Scott & White Hospital. I then taught clinical pharmacology and did clinical research as an Associate Professor at Texas Tech Univ Health Sciences Center in Dallas, Texas where I also taught in the NIH Clinical Scholars program at UT Southwestern. During this time, I also served as Chairman to the State of Texas Drug Utilization Review Board, a Governor appointed member to the State of Texas P&T Committee, taught advanced clinical pharmacology at both Baylor University and Texas Woman's University, and founded 2 medical education companies. I then obtained my MD at Texas A&M College of Medicine, completed a 4-year Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Masters of Science (MSc) in Evidenced-Based Health Care from Oxford University.