Jacob Minor

Jacob is a board-certified otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon from central Texas with seven years’ experience in active community-hospital associated clinical practice. He graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M University with a BS in biochemistry, and then attended Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He next completed a five-year otolaryngology residency at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he was chosen “Outstanding Chief Resident as Educator.” He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and holds a Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Traveler’s Health from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Jacob and his wife have four children and live near Ft. Hood, Texas, one of the largest army bases in the US. His clinical practice includes many veterans and families of soldiers, as well as some active-duty personnel. He sees patients of all ages and performs a wide variety of surgical procedures. He enjoys reading, traditional media and digital art, cooking, gardening, masonry, and landscaping. His father was a programmer, specializing in drivers for automating control systems, and he learned to swap hard drives, flash ROM chips, and even feed a paper tape reader, from a very young age.

As a long-time computer hobbyist, he had a leading role in EMR selection and administration when his small multispecialty group transitioned to a new system in 2013. He subsequently became more deeply interested in understanding informatics while learning about Epic during go-live preparation, eventually becoming focused on usability, systems design, and analytics, including SQL database reporting. He holds a CompTIA A+ certification, ten Epic proficiencies (all with honors) and seven Epic badges. His informatics passions are ease of use, quality of care, physician satisfaction, and patient safety.