Dr. Luther Travis retired from The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston in December 2006. During his tenure at UTMB, Dr. Travis served as the William W. Glauser Professor of Pediatrics in the Divisions of Nephrology and Diabetes. He was also the former Director of the Children's Renal Center and Children's Diabetes Management Center.

Dr. Travis has served on the American Board of Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatric Nephrology, the American Diabetes Association Board of Directors, the National Kidney Foundation, the American Society of Nephrology, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, and the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. He was a founding member and regional director of the International Society for Kidney Disease in Children, a founding member and president of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology and an examiner of the American Board of Pediatrics.

Dr. Travis has received numerous awards and honors, including the ADA Outstanding Service to Youth Award; the Gold Medal Award from the Republic of Germany for Outstanding Diabetes Service; the ADA Outstanding Contribution to Camping and Diabetes Award; the Tribute Award of the ADA Texas affiliate; and ADA Outstanding Physician Educator. He was inducted into the Texas Diabetes Hall of Fame. He has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Health; the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the Centers for Disease Control and the Food & Drug Administration.

Dr. Travis has published 13 English editions of An Instructional Aide on Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, a book that has been translated into 15 languages and distributed to well over 4,000,000 persons with diabetes.

Dr. Travis received his Bachelor of Science from North Georgia College and his M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed an internship in General Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and later served as pediatric resident and chief resident at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in nephrology and diabetes at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He has been on the faculty of medicine at UTMB since 1962 and has been the author/co-author of 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals.