PULSE Magazine | February 2020 Issue

TRAVIS BAKER

Growing up in the Austin area, many of my family members have worked and retired from public service with the City of Austin. I obtained my paramedic certification in 2004, and worked as a volunteer paramedic with Texas A&M EMS. After graduating in 2008 from Texas A&M I worked as a paramedic/ firefighter for several local fire departments and EMS agencies, including ATC-EMS (EM2425)!

Travis Baker, MCHS, PA-C, EMT-P Paramedic Practitioner Office of the Medical Director

My goals as the first PL7 with ATCEMS is to forge a new and effective way of delivering care to our ever growing pre-hospital population. With the support and vision of Chief Rodriguez and Dr. Escott I will focus on those patients who can be dispositioned without ambulance transport, work alongside our CHP team and assist with critical care in the streets. We are hopeful this vision can be reinforced when we are selected for the ET3 project by the federal government. My long term goal is to have PL7’s available 24 hours a day in-person and via tele-health connection, as a resource for the EMS system. In 2013 I graduated from University of Washington-Seattle MEDEX PA program, followed in 2014 by a fellowship in emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. After the fellowship, I worked full time in the Emergency department at Ben Taub General Hospital. While working as a PA I also stayed active with HCESD #48 and Montgomery County Hospital District EMS as well. For the past three years I have been working critical care and emergency medicine in the Austin area.

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