Michael Daily was born and raised in the rural town of Savannah, Missouri, which is located 60 miles north of Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Missouri Western State University in Saint Joseph Missouri with a Bachelors of Business Administration in 1977, and after working for a few years as Store Manager for Firestone Tire Company in Lawrence, Kansas, and then in management with K-Mart Corporation in Illinois, Michael graduated Cum Laude from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO, with a Masters of Divinity in May 1987. Michael received ordination as a Baptist Minister at Winnwood Baptist Church in Kansas City, MO in 1987. Michael is also a student of Spanish and Portuguese at Florida International University and is a member of the Phi kappa Phi and Golden Key National Honor Societies.  Read More

I am currently Adjunct Faculty for Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Department of Life Sciences, Health and Wellness.  My passion is to educate and train students to become community first responders during emergency situations. My motto has always been ” The more people we train in CPR and First Aid, the more lives we are able to save”. I am also a Registered Respiratory Therapist with vast experience in the adult and pediatric realm of patients. I consider myself to be a “life-long learner” because I am always seeking ways to advance my knowledge and skills relevant to the allied health care professions and academia. Besides my involvement with higher education, I enjoy to read and to travel. Most important, I value the time that I spend with family and friends. I continue to author health and medical-related articles and to serve as an educational consultant for the University of Miami’s Summer Scholars Program. My professional involvement with faculty and students is highly rewarding for my career pathways and motivate me to excel as an educator. My greatest satisfaction is to witness the professional accomplishments of my former students.

Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo is currently and Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. He is a Puerto Rican born physician who was raised in the Bronx. He graduated summa cum laude from the Sophie Davis School of Bio-Medical Education at City College, and subsequently obtained his MD degree from the New York University School of Medicine. He completed a three-year internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and then completed Harvard’s two-year General Medicine Fellowship and obtained an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Read More

Dr. Michel is an entrepreneur with 15 + years of experience in Medical Group and Hospital management. Founder and President of Larkin Health Systems, an integrated healthcare delivery system accredited by the Joint Commission with locations in South Miami, Hialeah and Hollywood, Florida. This network of acute care hospitals provide a complete continuum of healthcare services, including a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, and home health agencies in Miami-Dade and Broward County. Larkin Hospital is one of 12 Statutory Teaching Hospitals in Florida and the largest Osteopathic Teaching Hospital in the United States, offering 28 AOA accredited residency and fellowship programs and an ACGME accredited program in Psychiatry. It is also the sixth largest statutory teaching hospital in Florida (by number of postgraduate training programs), and the fourth largest (by specialties in supply/demand deficit in Florida). Offering post graduate training to physicians in 41 different specialties, including an Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency Program, an American Society of Health System Pharmacists Accredited Pharmacy Residency Program and a Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program. Larkin School of Nursing offers a Registered Nurse Associate Degree Program.

Founder of Larkin University, which consists of a College of Pharmacy (3 year Pharm D Degree) and a College of Biomedical Sciences (Masters in Biomedical Sciences and PhD in Clinical and Translational Research.