Dr. Barkley is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine with sub-specialty certification in Cardiovascular Disease. He is a native West Texan raised on his family’s farm and ranch in the northern panhandle. After graduating from Texas Tech with his undergraduate degree, he continued on to medical school at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He then completed his internal medicine training at UT Southwestern in Dallas prior to specializing in cardiology and interventional cardiology at Baylor Scott & White Hospital in Temple.