DAVY D HOBSON BIO
Mr. Davy D Hobson is an instructor at Remington College with a background as a Nationally Registered Paramedic and Texas licensed Paramedic working for East Texas Medical Center in Tyler Texas. He has held past certifications and designations as BLS, ACLS, PALS, ENPC, TNCC, TNCC Instructor and HSC-O. He worked as a Medical Assistant for Acute Care of Tyler with patient volumes of over 100 per day where he trained in x-ray and laboratory examinations performing gram stains and cell differentials under the microscope.
He attended Tyler Junior College, East Texas Baptist University, University of Texas at Tyler, Chamberlain College of Nursing and Excelsior University in Albany New York and where he graduated with his Nursing Degree. Mr Hobson has also worked as a travel nurse in 38 ERs across southern California and 7 ERs in Texas and as being a Director of the Emergency Department over two ERs in East Texas. Additionally, he did a 6 month stint in the Gulf of Mexico as Medic working for Acadian Air and Ambulance service in 1998 after being trained by physicians in Louisiana in suturing techniques, antibiotic therapy, and examination of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat using the ophthalmoscope and otoscope.
His background growing up as a kid included selling Tyler Roses on rose bloom stands in Fort Worth each summer from ages 10 to 15. Mr. Hobson was one of the first 200 people to become a Texas Certified Horticulturist in the early 1970s. Between college semesters in the early 1970s, he worked at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona as well as working close to Houston, Texas as a "roughneck" "throwing the chain" on Rig #21 for Delta Drilling in 1974. Mr Hobson loves the outdoors with hiking, camping, fishing, and hunting. Raised by a step-father who was a professional rodeo calf roper, Mr Hobson has himself rode bucking horses and one 2,000 pound bull from PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) stock in his younger days. He also likes to read, sing, compose music, learn foreign languages, and play basketball. His composition for a short piece for cellos was premiered at Tyler Junior College for the Betty Resig Concert January of 2008. He also entered a singing contest and competed a year with over 500 contestants winning the Grand Prize and Designation as Winner of the 1991 American Music Hayride. He recorded in Nashville, opened for Linda Davis, (mother of Lady Antebellum Hillary Scott) at The Oil Palace, sang on the Ronnie McDowel show in Branson in Mickey Gilley's theater, and was opening act for Joe Diffe at the 1992 Texas Cattle Baron’s Ball.
Mr. Hobson is no stranger to the medical field, having worked in the hospital in the early 1980s in medical/surgical, orthopedics, and urology floors. In April of 2003, he underwent a surgical operation to remove cancer for which his father had also been diagnosed with but died six days prior to his operation. More recently, Mr Hobson was admitted to Southwestern Medical Center - St Paul Hospital which is now Clements Hospital in February of 2013 with a diagnosis of VT Storm. This resulted in several episodes of deadly heart rhythms with subsequent CPR and numerous defibrillations at various times along with emergency opening and closings of the chest in efforts to treat his dying heart. After large amounts of blood transfusions and staff having to stand and physically hand strip the lines because the blood was clotting so fast, and after being increased on pressor medications due to 60/30 and 70/40 blood pressures, he was placed on CRTT, continuous renal transfusion treatment for failing kidneys. Meantime, Mr Hobson developed cardiogenic shock and then went on to develop cardiac tamponade. Emergent opening of the chest to evacuate clots and treat the tamponade, resulted in doctors having to make a decision to try something they had never done before. With only hours to save his life they elected to place two LVADS in Mr Hobson and this allowed him to live for five months in the hospital awaiting a new heart transplant. Total time in the hospital was seven months. Because of this experience, Mr Hobson thinks this has only helped to make him a better teacher and trainer of students since he has experience on both sides of the fence as clinician and a patient. His thoughts now are, “I feel because of what I had to go through, I will be able to equip students in such a way that helps them relate to their patients empathetically and to show understanding that results in peace of mind for the patient. Overall, it should make the students not only better clinicians, but better prepared in their roles and their approach to the patient.”
Mr. Hobson is 70 years old and currently lives with his wife of 40 years in Tyler and has a 39-year-old daughter who lives in San Diego and a 31-year-old son who lives in Tyler.