 Award-winning Family Physician, Medical Journalist,
Dr. Larimore has also served as a medical consultant for the Total Living Television Network, CCN (Christian Communications Network), HealthTeacher.com, and DiscoveryHealth.com. Dr. Larimore hosted the nationally syndicated Focus on Your Family's Health from 2001 to 2004. These 90-second daily news features were in as many as 75 radio and 37 TV markets across the U.S. Dr. Larimore also provided live on-air interviews to local TV affiliates and national cable TV outlets about breaking medical news. Dr. Larimore hosted over 850 live daily episodes of the daily National Cable TV Show Ask the Family Doctor (1995-2000) on America's Health Network and later on Fox's Health Network. While with Fox, Dr. Larimore was awarded the prestigious "Gracie" Award in 2000 by the American Women in Radio and Television for his work on a program about breast cancer and reconstructive surgery for Fox News's Health Network. Besides hosting the show in-studio, he also performed investigative and field work. At its peak, his show was available in over 28 million American homes. Joe Maddox, the past President and COO of America's Health Network, said that Dr. Larimore had more "... actual on-air TV experience than any physician in the history of television." Dr. Larimore also hosted a medical news minute on The Health Network and the Apple a Day segment on The Health Network and later on Discovery Health TV Network. On Ask the Family Doctor, Dr. Larimore hosted several of the nation's first live televised medical procedures. He conceived and hosted the first worldwide live Internet and TV birth in June 1998 – a then innovative approach to reality TV that was covered by most large media outlets. Of his hosting, the international edition of Time Magazine said, "Dr. Walt Larimore, a distinguished private physician conducted the exercise like a veteran 60 Minutes reporter." Dr. Larimore has appeared in interviews on NBC's "The Today Show;" "CBS Good Morning;" "CNN Headline News;" CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," CNBC's "The Abrams Report;" PBS' "Family Works;" and several Fox News shows. He has also been interviewed on Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity's shows. As a family health and medical expert, Dr. Larimore has been sought for print interviews with dozens of newspapers: including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, Orlando Sentinel, National Catholic Register, Malaysia Strait Times, South China Post, and the UPI. Dr. Larimore has been interviewed by a number of national magazines including Redbook, In Touch Weekly, Life & Style, Significant Living, Today’s Christian, Home Life, Family Life, Stand Firm, First for Women, Today’s Christian Physician, My Family Doctor, AMA News, Family Practice News, and Pediatric News. Best-Selling, Award-Winning Author His most recent books include 10 Essentials of Happy, Healthy People (CreateSpace/2009) and Time Scene Investigators: The Gabon Virus (Howard Books/Simon & Schuster/2009), Dr. Walt’s first novel. His best-selling series, about his first years in practice as a family physician in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, includes Bryson City Tales, Bryson City Seasons, and Bryson City Secrets. He also recorded the Audio Book, Best of Bryson City (2004). The Highly Healthy Child (Zondervan/Christian Medical Association/2004) was awarded a Silver Medallion Book Award and was a finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Award. Another of his health books, 10 Essentials of Highly Healthy People (Zondervan/Christian Medical Association/2004) was awarded the Retailers Choice Award in the category of health and fitness. Dr. Larimore co-wrote Going Public with Your Faith: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work (Zondervan/2004), which won a Silver Medallion Book Award and was a finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Award. The video series, leader's guide and participant's guide for Going Public with Your Faith (Zondervan/2005) was also awarded a Silver Medallion Book Award and was a finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Award. Dr. Larimore co-authored the best-selling Alternative Medicine: Christian Handbook ((Zondervan/Christian Medical Association/2001 and 2008), Why ADHD Doesn't Mean Disaster (Tyndale/Focus on the Family/2003) and Lintball Leo's Not-So-Stupid Questions (Boys Ask about their Body) (ZonderKidz/2003) and SuperSized Kids: How to Rescue your Child from the Obesity Threat (Center Street/2004). 10 Essentials of Highly Healthy People (2003) was re-released as God's Design for the Highly Healthy Person (Zondervan/Christian Medical Association/2005) and was updated and released again as 10 Essentials of Happy Healthy People (CreateSpace/2009). The Highly Healthy Child (2004) was re-released as God's Design for the Highly Healthy Child (Zondervan/Christian Medical Association/2005). God's Design for the Highly Healthy Teen (Zondervan/Christian Medical Association) was released in 2005. Dr. Larimore's also has co-written The Honeymoon of Your Dreams: A practical guide to planning a romantic honeymoon (Regal Books/2007) and His Brain, Her Brain: How divinely desiged differences can strengthen your marriage (Zondervan/2008). Dr. Larimore was the General Editor for Updates in Maternity Care (2000) and served as a contributing author for the Mayo Clinic's Complete Book of Pregnancy and Baby's First Year, Focus on the Family's Complete Book of Baby and Child Care, and Focus on the Family's Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones. Dr. Larimore has published over 600 medical or health articles, editorials, and monographs in dozens of medical publications and magazines. He has written 30 medical textbook chapters on topics ranging from maternity care, prenatal care, sports injuries, endoscopy, rural health economics, and ethics. Family Physician, Educator, Teacher Dr. Larimore teaches family medicine part-time, holding adjunct clinical academic appointments in family medicine at the In His Image Family Medicine Residency Program in Tulsa, OK and the University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency Program in Denver, CO. Dr. Larimore served as Vice President and Family Physician in Residence at Focus on the Family from 2001 through 2004. Dr. Larimore completed his Residency in Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in 1981 and completed a General Practice Teaching Fellowship at Queen's Hospital in Nottingham, England in 1978. His M.D. degree, with AOA honors, was from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1977; and his B.S. degree was from Louisiana State University in 1974. Dr. Larimore is Board Certified and re-certified (four times) by the American Board of Family Practice and has been awarded the Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine by the ABFP. He has been awarded the American Medical Association's Physician Recognition Award every year since 1981. Prior to moving to Colorado in 2001, Dr. Larimore practiced family medicine in Kissimmee, Florida for 16 years. During this time he served over a decade as a volunteer physician for the U.S. Olympic Committee and was named to the Great Florida Shootout Basketball Tournament Hall of Fame. From 1981 to 1985, Dr. Larimore practiced in the small town of Bryson City in the rural Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Dr. Larimore has been listed in "Distinguished Physicians of America," "The Best Doctors in America," "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare," "Who's Who in Science and Engineering," "International Health Professionals of the Year,” and "International Health Scientists of the Year." In addition, Dr. Larimore has been listed in the Guide to America's Top Family Doctors, America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals, and The 2000 Intellectuals of the 21st Century. In 1996, Dr. Larimore was named America's Outstanding Family Physician Educator (Thomas W. Johnson Award) by the American Academy of Family Physicians and in 1999, he and his wife, Barb, were named National Educators of the Year by the Christian Medical Association. Dr. Larimore was listed as an inaugural member of the Leading Educators of the World (in the field of family medicine), by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England. Dr. Larimore and his childhood sweetheart, Barb, live in Colorado and have been married over 36 years, have two adult children, two wonderful grandchildren, and a cat named Jack. . |
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