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Jeff Jarvis began his EMS career as a volunteer firefighter in Cleveland, Texas in 1985.
He became an EMT while attending Texas A&M University. He and another group of brave Aggies traveled back and forth to Houston Community College to become paramedics in 1988. Dr. Jarvis worked his way through college as a paramedic in three states: Texas, New York and Connecticut.
He sacrificed two years of his life in New York to get his Masters degree in Emergency Medical Services and, upon returning to the Promised Land, became the State EMS Training Coordinator for the Texas Department of Health in Austin.
He assumed the position of Director of EMS Education for Scott & White Memorial Hospital in June 1996. In August 1998, Jeff became the director of the newly founded Department of EMS Technology at Temple College. He is also a founder and past president of the EMS Educator's Association of Texas.
In an attempt to further his EMS career, he went to the University of Texas Medical Branch medical school in order to become an EMS medical director. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at Scott & White/Texas A&M Health Science Center in Temple.
In addition to his duties assisting the EMS program at TC, he serves as an emergency physician at Scott & White's University Medical Campus ED in Round Rock, Texas.
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