Larry Driver, MD

His undergraduate education was at Austin College followed by medical education at The University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. Anesthesiology Residency was completed at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and he completed a Clinical Fellowship in Pain and Symptom Management at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He is Board Certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He was a Visiting Research Scholar in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and is a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow. He was the founding Chair and Medical Director of the Texas Pain Advocacy and Information Network (TXPAIN), served as President of the Texas Pain Society and Chair of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. He has served Doctors, Super Doctors and Who’s Who listings, and has received numerous state and national awards for his advocacy efforts. He is an elected Fellow of the Texas Academy of Science, a selected member and Past-President of the University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education, and is designated a UT Distinguished Teaching Professor and recognized as an MD Anderson distinguished Educator and Mentor. Interests include clinical pain and symptom management for patients with active cancer and advanced cancer, as well as cancer survivors; ethical issues surrounding those clinical situations; research focused on symptom burden and impact in cancer patients; and pain education and public policy initiatives.

PRESENT TITLE AND AFFILIATION

• University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor
• Primary Appointment: Professor, Department of Pain Medicine in the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Pain Medicine
• The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
• Joint Appointment: Professor, Department of Critical Care – Clinical Ethics in Cancer Care, Center for Clinical Ethics, MD Anderson

EDUCATION
Degree-Granting Education

• Austin College, Sherman, Texas, B.A., 1976
• University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, M.D., 1980

Postgraduate Training

• Intern, General Surgery, University of Texas Hospitals, San Antonio, Texas — J. Bradley Aust, MD, Program Director, 1980-1981
• Resident, Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado — Philip R. Bromage MBBS, Program Director, 1982-1984
• Chief Resident, Denver General Hospital, Denver Colorado — Fred Galloway, MD, Program Director, 1983-1984
• Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Clinical Ethics / Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. — Edmund Pellegrino, MD, Program Director, 1992-1997
• Clinical Fellow, Pain and Symptom Management, U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas — Richard Payne MD, Richard Patt MD, Program Directors, 1998-1999
• Mayday Pain and Society Fellow, The Mayday Fund, Washington, D.C., New York, NY — Christina Spelman PhD, Executive Director, 2005-2006

CREDENTIALS – Board Certification

• Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology (continuing certification since 1992)
• Pain Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology (certification thru 2032)
• Palliative Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology (certification via American Board of Internal Medicine thru 2032)