Dr. Bose is a world-leading emergency medicine physician, combat veteran, professor, and entrepreneur. From his experience in the ER and on the battlefield, he is skilled in staying grounded in the face of overwhelm and is ready to tackle any challenge with skill and agility. His focus is on large-scale health and education impacts to improve personal, public, and veteran health.
Dr. Bose is one of America’s most experienced doctors in emergency medicine, mass casualty and disaster response, and post-traumatic stress disorder. As a double-board-certified emergency physician, his day to day includes treating critically ill patients from newborn to end-of-life including gunshot wounds, COVID, and heart attacks. Dr. Bose serves as city emergency medical services (EMS) medical director in West Texas overseeing 19 counties encompassing over 38,000 square miles, the largest geographic coverage by any hospital system in the United States (roughly the size of the state of Maine). In this role, he orchestrates the city emergency response for ambulances, firefighters, and SWAT during mass shootings, pandemics, and mass casualty incidents. He is driven to stay at the forefront of his specialty, achieving advanced certification from the Department of Homeland Security in federal, state, and local disaster response protocol. As a national disaster expert, Dr. Bose presented at the 2019 United Nations General Assembly on emergency medical services and disaster care. Dr. Bose has logged more than 1,000 media appearances as a health correspondent, including features on CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, FOX, Time magazine, and more.
A former major in the U.S. Army, Dr. Bose is a proud Iraq war veteran with 12 years of service. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Dr. Bose provided front-line emergency medical care on the streets to thousands of wounded soldiers and Iraqi civilians during the peak of insurgencies in Baghdad, Najaf, and Fallujah. In these circumstances, Dr. Bose refined his ability to motivate teams and manage crises. Because he often lacked traditional resources and time, he also learned to quickly develop creative solutions to challenges. Dr. Bose is passionate about veteran advocacy and is the founder of The Battle Continues, a nonprofit charity advocating for the health needs of veterans; 100% of donations go directly to injured veterans.
At the local level, Dr. Bose improved access to emergency care in his community by starting and co-owning several freestanding emergency rooms to provide patients with an efficient and effective alternative to spending sometimes hours at the hospital ER while awaiting treatment. At the national level, Dr. Bose is the founder & CEO of several nationally top-ranked medical and education technology companies focused on increasing healthcare knowledge and agency improvement. Dr. Bose was involved in all aspects of developing and executing the business model and marketing plan for each company, giving him practical business skills. His companies reached profitability in the first year, and participant examination scores and patient health improved. He pivoted his companies to adapt to changing requirements to retain market leader status for over 15 years. He serves as a strategic advisor to Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Fortune 500 companies.
Dr. Bose is passionate about training the next generation of physicians. He is currently a clinical professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and at University of Illinois and has held faculty positions at University of Texas and Texas A&M. In this role, he must stay at the forefront of medical breakthroughs and communicate difficult concepts in a way others can understand and apply.