Neil has been involved in EMS for 24 years. After graduating from Texas A&M University (whoop!) in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in zoology, he completed paramedic training at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Dallas (now UT Southwestern Medical Center). He served for seven years with the Dallas EMS System performing a variety of duties, including working as a field medic, instructing EMTs and paramedics at UTHSC-Dallas, coordinating health and medical components of the City’s emergency preparedness planning, and managing the City’s program for licensing private ambulance services.

In 1984, he moved to Lubbock, where he worked for the Texas Department of Health as an EMS Program Specialist in Public Health Region 2/12. Neil moved to Amarillo in 1985, where he spent two years directing the Paramedicine Technology Program at Amarillo College. He returned to Lubbock in 1987 to become Education Coordinator for the EMS Program at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). In 1989, he was promoted to Program Director. In this capacity, he also served as Training Coordinator for the 24-county South Plains Emergency Medical Services System (SPEMS).

From 1996 through 1999, Neil also held the position of State EMS Training Coordinator for Texas under an interagency agreement between TTUHSC and the Texas Department of Health. Neil came to Temple College in the Fall of 1999 and became Department Chair in the Spring of 2000. In the Fall of 2004, Neil became the Director of Clinical Simulation.

Neil is a state certified advanced coordinator, ACLS instructor, PHTLS instructor/coordinator, PALS instructor, and BLS instructor-trainer.

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