• The house reelected Speaker Cliff Moy, MD, and Vice Speaker Susan Strate, MD.
• Drs. Dan McCoy and Linda Villarreal were reelected to the TMA Board of Trustees. Houston emergency medi- cine specialist Diana Fite, MD, and Fort Worth pediatrician Gary Floyd, MD, were elected new board mem- bers. Brad Butler, MD, an anesthe- siologist from Longview, is the first to win the young physician seat on the board. The new resident trustee is Maryam Shambayati, DO, of Plano, and the new medical student member is David Savage of The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
• The trustees chose Don Read, MD, as their chair; Doug Curran, MD, as vice chair; Drs. McCoy and David Henkes as members of the executive commit- tee; and Dr. Fite as secretary.
New members of the Texas Delega-
tion to the American Medical Associa- tion are Drs. Sue Bornstein, of Dallas; Cynthia Jumper, of Lubbock; Roxanne Tyroch, of El Paso; and Alex Valadka, of Austin.
Dr. Baum receives Distinguished Service Award
Houston ophthalmologist and TMA Past President Alan C. Baum, MD, received the TMA Distinguished Service Award from the TMA House of Delegates at TexMed 2014 in FortWorth. TMA’s Board of Councilors’ ethics
body selected him for the award. “Receiving this honor was certainly unexpected,” said Dr. Baum. “But I ap- preciate it very much and am encour- aged that the Board of Councilors has recognized me.” Dr. Baum has provided outstanding leadership to the medical profession at the local, state, and national levels and has made great strides in medical sci- ence, public service, and service to the medical community. Dr. Baum has served as chair of TEX- PAC and the TMA Board of Trustees and
has been a member of innumerable TMA and Harris County Medical Society (HCMS) councils. Medicine runs in his family’s blood.
His father was a family physician who ascended to leadership roles himself, which Dr. Baum says “probably molded my approach.” He credits not only his father but also other physicians he ad- mired in his early days as a doctor. “These were the people I considered
to be the giants in medicine. I felt they were trying to push medicine in the right direction, so that influenced me to fol- low in their footsteps,” he said. Driven to protect physicians’ ability
to provide good patient care, Dr. Baum worked hard to form invaluable relation- ships with Texas legislators. He realized the importance of advocating on behalf of his profession and his patients to im- prove Texas’ health care. “Calling on legislators can make such
a difference when they see you’re will- ing to share what’s important to your pa- tients and your practice. Doing so, you represent so much more than yourself,” he said. He often visited with Texas legisla-
TexMed 2014 keynote speaker Zubin Damania, MD, and his alter ego ZDoggMD described his journey from idealism to burnout and back again with the creation of Turntable Health, a unique primary care practice in Las Vegas. “We are the smartest, most creative, educated, brilliant people on the planet, and we’re treated like crap, and it’s time that it stopped,” he told General Session attendees. Watch his entire presentation at
http://bit.ly/ ZDoggTexMed.
For the 16th year, the TMA Board of Trustees awarded nine $5,000 scholarships to promising minority medical students at TexMed 2014. Recipients shown in front are Grecia Sanchez, Maria Ruiz, Luz Rodriguez, Brittany Carter, Jo-Anna Palma, Victoria Mitre, and Claudia Martinez, and in the back row are Ruben Solis and Brian Mbah. TMA Trustee Don R. Read, MD, left on back row, and TMA Foundation President G. Sealy Massingill, MD, presented awards to the recipients. The Minority Scholarship Program is supported by the TMA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of TMA, thanks to generous major supporters and gifts from physicians and their families.
July 2014 TEXAS MEDICINE 11
MARC SWENDNER
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