Dr. Larry Miller has been the Medical Director for the BSBEMS since he helped found it in 1978. Dr. Miller practiced emergency medicine for more than 30 years in one of Texas’ largest inner city hospitals. Since training at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, where he earned the Intern of the Year Award in 1966, he has personally treated more than 110,000 emergency patients. Doctor Miller was Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Baptist Healthcare System in San Antonio, TX, and is director of several outlying EMS organizations.
He volunteered for three years at Hospital Castaner in Puerto Rico, a rural total health care facility serving approximately 30,000 patients. He was the founder and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) Health Care Project in Indiera Al Ta, Puerto Rico. He traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and South America, working at remote hospitals and public health facilities in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Columbia.
Dr. Miller has also successfully developed and commercialized several medical products as a senior executive of three innovative, publicly traded companies: among them LifeQuest Medical Inc. He, as cofounder and chairman, acquired worldwide rights to the Osteoport and to the First Med System developed by scientists at the University of Texas. The Osteoport was selected by Popular Science as one of the 100 greatest achievements in science and technology for 1991. LifeQuest develops and markets unique medical devices for improving patient quality of life.