clinical training opportunities for Tex- as medical students.


• Oppose expanded distribution of raw milk and raw milk products in Texas;


• Support state programs against dis- tracted driving caused by use of hand-held devices and encourage the legislature to develop “appropri- ate regulatory actions” to reduce dis- tracted driving;


• Work with the Texas Department of Public Safety to improve the process- ing of applications for controlled sub- stance licenses, and


• Direct TMA to work with state and national specialty societies to develop strategies to improve pain treatment, and educate physicians about the lat- est opioid analgesia management to reduce misuse, abuse, diversion, and nontherapeutic prescribing.


The house also followed recommen- dations from its reference committees to reject resolutions to:


• Encourage medical schools to have at least one physician interview medical school applicants;


• Establish a task force of psychiatrists and pediatricians to identify causes of increasing inappropriate sexual behavior in children, and develop a strategy for physicians, educators, so- cial workers, and others to work to reduce it;


• Adopt new policy that adults aged 55–74 who smoke or used to smoke 30 packs of cigarettes a year talk to their physicians about lung cancer screening using low-dose noncontrast helical CT. The Reference Committee on Science and Public Health said there is not enough evidence to sup- port adoption, and there are concerns about cost and false-positive results.


New speaker, vice speaker After naming House Speaker Stephen L. Brotherton, MD, president-elect, the house needed new leadership. It pro- moted Vice Speaker Clifford Moy, MD, of Dallas, to speaker, and elected Su- san Strate, MD, of Wichita Falls, as vice speaker. Dr. Moy, a psychiatrist, also chaired


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TMA’s Medical Student Section (MSS) and Resident Physician Section (RFS) and served on numerous TMA and American Medical Association councils and committees. He also is a Texas del- egate to AMA. Dr. Strate is past chair of the TMA Council on Socioeconomics, Patient- Physician Advocacy Committee, and the Texas Medical Association Political Ac- tion Committee. She also is a past presi- dent of the TMA Foundation. In other elections, the House of Del-


egates reelected Lewis Foxhall, MD, of Houston, David Henkes, MD, of San An- tonio, and Don Read, MD, of Dallas, to three-year terms on the TMA Board of Trustees.


The house also elected delegates to


AMA. It reelected Robert B. Morrow, MD, Sugar Land; A. Tomas Garcia, MD, Hous- ton; Art Klawitter, MD, Needville; Larry E. Reaves, MD, Fort Worth; David C. Fleeger, MD, Austin; Vijay Koli, MD, San Antonio; Asa C. Lockhart, MD, Tyler; and William H. Fleming, MD, Houston. New alternate delegates are G. Ray


Callas, MD, Beaumont, and Arlo F. Weltge, MD, Houston. Reelected alternate delegates are


Diana L. Fite, MD, Tomball; David D. Teuscher, MD, Beaumont; Kenneth L. Mattox, MD, Houston; Leslie H. Se- crest, MD, Dallas; Brad G. Butler, MD, Longview; resident Seema Varghees, MD, Temple; and medical student Sam Yi, of Fort Worth.


Honors presented Several TMA sections honored physi- cians, students, and medical schools for their efforts last year. The Young Physician Section (YPS)


presented its Young at Heart Award to former TMA President Josie Williams, MD. The section honored her for many years of service to medicine and TMA. “She has been a constant advocate


for organized medicine and, especially, for young physician involvement,” YPS Chair Lenore C. DePagter, DO, of San Marcos, said in presenting the award. “She is always willing to lend a helping hand to those aiming to follow in her footsteps and encourage new and fresh


ideas. For this and so much more, we would like to thank her.” YPS also awarded the 2012 Michael


O’Malley, MD, Memorial Scholarship to Kaitlyn Sestak of Weimar High School. She plans to become an anesthesiologist. Waco family physician Jackson Griggs,


MD, received the RFS J.T. “Lamar” Mc- New Award for his support of graduate medical education. MSS honored Steve Robinson, MD, of Lubbock, with the C. Frank Webber, MD, Award for giving students opportunities to participate in political campaigns and to lobby lawmakers. The Texas Tech University Health


Sciences Center MSS chapter won the Chapter of the Year Award for organizing Be Wise — ImmunizeSM


and Hard Hats


for Little Heads events and participating in First Tuesdays at the Capitol. The University of Texas Medical School at Houston student Alexandra Iacob received the Student of the Year Award for her participation in state and national organized medicine.


New president wants more members


Houston neonatologist Michael Speer, MD, became the 147th president of the Texas Medical Association at TexMed 2012 on May 19. Here is the text of his installation address:


Over the past several months, more and more people have come up to me and asked, “Michael, what is your No. 1 goal as TMA president?”


My answer is simple. My primary goal as your president is to increase phy- sician membership in TMA. Why? Because the more physician boots on the ground and the more phy- sician voices in the air when discussing medical issues with mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, cous- ins and — by the way — legislators, the more we are heard and respected. The level of that respect translates directly into what we can do for our patients, for our practices, for our profession. By being members of TMA, physicians


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