Ron Tamplin was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in South East Texas on September 13, 1955. He has had a very interesting life and career in the Medical profession working in the specialty area of Nephrology.
His ancestors go back to the United Kingdom in the1700’s, Scotland in the 1800’s, and then gravitating on to County Cork, Ireland in the early 1900’s. Ron’s grandfather Kage Charles Tamplin worked several times on the Panama Canal Passage. Departing from New Orleans with all of the of others that completed that difficult construction project. Ron attended University of Texas Arlington and graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing.
Over the past 46 years Ron has been active in the health care industry. His career included a four year expatriate tour which took him to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. While there Ron worked in an International Country Sales Manager Director position. In that role he covered over 18 countries and worked with the Ministers of Health in each country opening Nephrology dialysis facilities. Meeting a lot of challenges along the way since the first Gulf Crisis war was occurring during that same time in his Region. He repatriated in 1992 and had a very interesting and successful career with Amgen Pharmaceutical as a Sales Manager retiring in 2018 after a very successful career.
Over the years Ron has held many voluntary roles. He served as President of the Dallas Irish American Society for the past two years and is now serving as the Past President. Ron has also been President of several Home owners associations, volunteering at local food pantries, President of the American Nephrology Nursing Association, and other local organizations. He has participated in the Dallas St. Patrick’s parade for many years and supported the local Irish American community events for over 35 years.