Board Certifications

  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
  • Basic Cardiovascular Life Support
  • Physician Assistant

Areas of Expertise

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Family Medicine
  • Internal Medicine

Education

Graduate Schools

Academy of Health Sciences
U.S. Armed Forces Physician Assistant Program
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX

American Technological University
Master of Science in Counseling Psychology & Family (Marriage) Counseling
Killeen, TX
1984

Undergraduate Schools

American Technological University
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education
Killeen, TX
1979

Baylor University
Associate of Science in Allied Sciences
Waco, TX
1976

Physician Assistant School

Academy of Health Sciences, Fort Sam Houston
Physician Assistant Studies
San Antonio, TX
1974 – 1976

Publication

“Burnout and the PA,” Physician Assistant & Health Practitioner (June 1986)

Academic Appointments

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Instructor

EMS Program in Killeen, TX
Clinical Coordinator & Instructor

Green Berets (Army) Medical Teams,
Clinical Instructor

LVN School,
Clinical Instructor

Biography

Mr. Colón, who prefers to be called Ed, was born in Puerto Rico but raised in Queens, New York. He attended Long Island City High School. His first job, other than delivering newspapers and shoveling snow off businesses’ driveways, was as an animal caretaker at the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

Ed served with distinction in the U.S. Army for over 22 years of active military service retiring as a medical officer in 1987. Since graduating from the PA Program, he has worked in emergency medicine, internal medicine, and, for the past 20+ years, in family medicine. This is his 41st year as a Physician Assistant. Ed recently retired from Memorial Hermann Medical Group after 20 years of service; he is working on a part-time basis for Pucillo Family Medicine Clinic.

Ed has taught the BCLS (Basic Life Support) and ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) courses and directed the EMT Course at Fort Hood, Texas. He was an instructor of the Green Berets during the medical aspect of their training. He was also an instructor at an LVN Course, and, during the last four years of his military career, he taught at the PA Program from which he had graduated.

Interspersed with all this, he is an ordained minister currently serving as the senior pastor at a local church. He and his wife will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in September of this year. They have two daughters, their husbands, and six precious grandchildren. In his free time, Ed enjoys going on dates with his wife and spending time with his grandchildren.