Dr. Spilker enjoys walking on the beach, as below on Park Shore, and confesses he doesn't walk often enough. We forget how privileged we are to live here.

Returning to the first person, I was educated at Southern Methodist University, and studied Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.  I did my Internal Medicine in Charlotte, North Carolina, followed by a three year Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at Emory University in Atlanta.   I have since then been fortunate to practice in Naples, from where my 2 daughters have left to attend college (although I suspect they have become more attuned to the joys of Florida now that they suffer freezing grey winter days).

I am a non-invasive cardiologist and spend half-days following hospital inpatients.  I have weekday outpatient hours, and follow people with hypertension, heart failure, angina, and a myriad of problems.  Medical care is so difficult in heart patients that I am often your most frequently called upon resource.