Walt Larimore, MD, is host of "Ask The Family Doctor," a series that airs daily on The Health Network?. In June 1998 he conceived the idea for and hosted the world’s first public live Internet birth. This event, presented on the network’s Web site at thehealthnetwork.com, set a record by attracting the most visitors ever to a single live broadcast event on the Internet. He has hosted a number of live internet and televised medical procedures, including open heart surgery with Dr. Denton Cooley in August, 1998, brain surgery in the spring of 1999 and hernia surgery and the birth of triplets during the summer of 1999. He has appeared in interviews on Fox News, the Fox Report with Paula Zahn, NBC’s "The Today Show," CBS’s "Good Morning," CNN’s "Headline News" and PBS’s "Family Works."
Dr. Larimore also hosts "On Call With the Family Doctor," a weekly live radio show. In addition to hosting the TV and radio shows, Dr. Larimore continues to practice as a family physician and has faculty appointments at the Schools of Medicine at the University of South Florida, Duke University and the University of Florida.
Dr. Larimore is a six-time recipient of the American Medical Association’s Physician’s Recognition Award and is listed in "The Best Doctors in America." This is an annual directory that lists physicians who have been chosen by their peers as "the best and the brightest" in their fields through a survey of more than 35,000 letters and phone interviews. In 1996 he became the first private-practice physician to receive the Thomas W. Johnson Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians, which recognizes the nation’s outstanding family practice educator.
Dr. Larimore performs community-based research, has published several medical textbook chapters and nearly 200 articles in the medical literature. He and his practice partners write a bi-monthly column in "American Family Physician," the largest circulation family practice publication in the world. He has been a volunteer physician for the U.S. Olympic Committee since 1991 and a rodeo physician for the Silver Spurs Biannual Rodeo since 1986.
Dr. Larimore is dually board-certified in family practice and sports medicine. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Louisiana State University in 1977 and received his post-graduate training at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Queens Medical Center in Nottingham, England, and Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. While at Queens Medical Center, Dr. Larimore was awarded a General Practice Teaching Fellowship, an honor awarded to only three physicians each year.