TMA members are winners


Leslie Kennedy, MD, Corsicana; Kar- en Benz, MD, Fort Worth; and Susan Van De Water, MD, Midland, are the winners in TMA’s Personalize Your Homepage drawing. They each won a copy of TMA’s Policies & Procedures: A Guide for Medical Practices.


TMA had such a big response, the as- sociation extended the drawing. Person- alize your TMA homepage by March 31 and you will be eligible to win one of three copies of TMA’s publication Fraud and Abuse by Amanda Hill. It’s easy:


• Check the “Keep Me Logged In” box next time you log in to the TMA web- site at www.texmed.org with your TMA username and password. Did you forget your username or pass- word? The TMA Knowledge Center has the answer. Call (800) 880-7955 or email knowledge@texmed.org.


• Click on “Update Your Profile” to tell us your specific interests.


After that, anytime you visit us, you’ll be logged in automatically to your per- sonalized TMA homepage. Why not


make it your browser homepage, too, so you can follow the topics important to you whenever you go online?


Texas Health/Medical Home Summit in April


The Texas Health/Medical Home Sum- mit—April 4–5 in Austin—is the first statewide conference focused specifically on expanding access to a health/medical home for individuals and families in Tex- as. This summit offers interested parties the opportunity to learn about medical home models and best practices and to interact with program experts at various stages of implementation. The Texas Medical Home Initiative


(TMHI), a nonprofit organization, will host the summit. Its mission is to im- prove the health and health care of Tex- ans through education and support of clinicians in new models of health care delivery. TMHI leaders include physi- cians, nurse practitioners, consumers, business leaders, health insurers, and government representatives. TMHI’s strategic partner in this event is Texas Health Institute, a nonprofit health care policy think-tank based in Austin.


TMHI created a program to appeal to those who are considering transforma- tion of their practices, as well as those whose practices are transforming to the new models. For more information, visit www.tex ashealthhomesummit.org.


House of Delegates to vote on TMA amendments


The TMA House of Delegates will vote on final approval of these TMA constitu- tional amendments at TexMed 2013 in May. Delegates approved them on first reading in 2012.


1. Amend Constitution Article III, COM- POSITION, Section 1, as follows:


Sec. 1. This association shall be com- posed of members of duly and consti- tutionally chartered county medical societies and members thereof, affili- ate and at-large members of the as- sociation.


2. Amend Constitution Article V, HOUSE OF DELEGATES, Sec. 2, as follows:


Sec. 2. House of Delegates member- ship shall consist of: (1) Delegates representing county medical societies, elected in accor- dance with this Constitution and Bylaws; and


Deaths


William E. Shields, MD, 93; Texarkana; Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 1944; died Oct. 8, 2012.


L. Hernando Urrea, MD, 77; El Paso; Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1962; died Dec. 25, 2012.


Arthur C. Watson Jr., MD, 89; Nacogdoches; Northwestern University School of Medicine, 1950; died Sept. 29, 2012.


Channing Woods, MD, 86; Dallas; The University of Texas South- western Medical School, Dallas, 1949; died Dec. 1, 2012.


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(2) Ex officio members, including (a) The president, president- elect, immediate past president, secretary/treasurer, and speaker and vice speaker of the House of Delegates;


(b) Councilors;


(c) Nine members elected at large to the Board of Trustees plus the resident and student members of the board; (d) Texas delegates and alter- nate delegates to the American Medical Association;


(e) Chairs of standing councils and members of the Council on Legislation;


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