Doctor

I feel most at-home in my scrubs, working everywhere from the busiest urban emergency rooms in the nation to underserved community hospitals. Double board certified in emergency medicine and EMS, I’ve held various hospital leadership positions during my career. The face of emergency medicine constantly changes, and I’m driven to stay at the forefront of this specialty.

I’ve achieved advanced certification from the Department of Homeland Security in federal, state, and local disaster response protocol. I currently serve as city EMS medical director in West Texas, overseeing 19 counties encompassing over 38,000 square miles, the largest geographic coverage by any hospital system in the United States. In this role, I orchestrate the city emergency response for ambulances, firefighters, and SWAT during mass casualty incidents including the 2019 mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas and the COVID-19 pandemic

Based on my strong clinical record, I was selected by the International Association of Healthcare Professionals to represent emergency medicine in their publication, “The Leading Physicians of the World” and earned recognition in “Guide to America’s Top Emergency Medicine Physicians” for the last several years.

I was selected as one of “America’s Health Care Leaders” by the American College of Emergency Physicians and Health Leaders Magazine, and recognized by the American College of Emergency Physicians as one of the “Heroes of Emergency Medicine” of the last 40 years.

Since the beginning it was clear I was meant to be a doctor. I was accepted into medical school directly out of high school through the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University, getting my MD at 25.

At the age of 28, I achieved the nation’s top score on the American Board of Emergency Medicine In-training Examination, a test required of every medical resident in the United States. I was also named an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Texas A&M, making me one of the youngest medical school professors in the country. Today I serve as a professor at Texas Tech, as well as in Chicago as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois.

Logging over 1000 media appearances, I’m frequently featured in the media as a medical expert, including hit worldwide reality tv show Untold Stories of the ER, co-hosting the weekly health segment “Your Eye on Health” on CBS News, and additional appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Time Magazine, Forbes, The Washington Post, and several local news affiliates.

Being a doctor is more than just my day job. I believe health is our most valuable asset, and I aim to make quality health information and training available to all.

I’m the founder of KeepYourInnerArmyStrong.com, focused on providing authoritative, real-time medical, health, and fitness information from a variety of trusted sources. We aim to be a transformative force in the healthcare industry—driving optimal healthcare choices that are doctor-patient based.