one, in pairs, or in large groups — any- where across this great state of ours. I will visit as many of you this year as pos- sible. You may see me at your specialty meeting, in your home town, or both. By this time next year, we should all be on a very comfortable, first-name basis. But I do not want just numbers. I
want strength. I want strength for us and for our patients. Yes, when I appear at the Capitol to testify in support of an item in our Healthy Vision 2020 agenda, I want the head-turning, eye-opening impact that the 50,000 number has. But I also want legislators to put down their papers and pay attention to what we’re saying. And, after we are done speaking, I want them to come up to me, to you, and ask how they can help us accomplish what we want.
That’s it. Thank you for the privilege.
Dr. Brotherton chosen TMA president-elect
The TMA House of Delegates at TexMed 2012 elected Fort Worth orthopedic sur- geon Stephen L. Brotherton, MD, presi- dent-elect of the Texas Medical Associa- tion on May 19. Dr. Brotherton will serve as president- elect for one year, before becoming the association’s 148th president at TexMed 2013.
“I am humbled that my physician col- leagues elected me president-elect of TMA,” said Dr. Brotherton. “I am count- ing on having lots of help from the many talented people in Texas medicine lead- ership.” Dr. Brotherton previously served the past four years as speaker of the TMA House of Delegates. In nominating Dr. Brotherton, Keller pediatrician Jason Terk, MD, said, “We can be assured that
he will lead us in much the same way that he has lead this house, with order and a broad understanding of the issues we face today and tomorrow.” A past president of the Tarrant Coun- ty Medical Society, Dr. Brotherton also served as vice speaker of the House of Delegates, as a member of the TMA Board of Trustees since 2005, and as chair of the TMA Council on Health Service Organizations. He was a Texas delegate to the American Medical Asso- ciation House of Delegates for 11 years before resigning in 2009 to accept an ap- pointment to AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Protecting patients from the unsafe expansion of scope of practice by non- physicians and maintaining physician autonomy are top priorities during Dr. Brotherton’s term as president-elect and his eventual presidency. He says reener- gizing TMA’s component medical societ- ies and members is an essential part of accomplishing these goals. “I want us to revitalize some of our county medical societies that are not as active as they have been,” Dr. Brotherton said. “We need widespread TMA mem- bership support and presence through- out the state to support TMA’s goals and advocate for physicians and patients.” In addition to his work within TMA,
TMA President Michael Speer, MD of Houston, right, congratulates the 2012 winners of the TMA Ernest and Sarah Butler Excellence in Science Teaching Award. The winners include, from left, Matthew Wells, biology and environmental science teacher at Cypress Lake High School in Katy; Elizabeth Klammer, seventh-grade science teacher at St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas; and Paula Bagwell, fourth- and fifth-grade science teacher at Belmar Elementary School in Amarillo. In presenting the awards before the TMA House of Delegates, Dr. Speer said most of today’s medical students — “just like most of us in this room today — were influenced to choose medicine because of a teacher who instilled in them a love of science.”
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Dr. Brotherton is company physician for the Texas Ballet Theater and Metroplex Classic Ballet, medical director for the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, and a team physician for Texas Christian Uni- versity (TCU). He operated a clinic at a homeless shelter for 12 years and now spends his free time volunteering at a free medical clinic at Cornerstone Com- munity Center in Fort Worth. A graduate of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dr. Broth- erton has been practicing medicine for 25 years. He is board certified in ortho- pedic surgery and teaches at TCU, the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, and Fort Worth Af- filiated Hospitals Orthopedic Residency Program.
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