TMA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ACADEMIC MEDICINE
2015 GOLD LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT RECIPIENTS Jose Manuel de la Rosa, MD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso
Charleta Guillory, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Carlos R. Hamilton Jr., MD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Gilbert Handal, MD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso
Arlo F. Weltge, MD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2015 SILVER LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT RECIPIENTS
Patricia M. Butler, MD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Charles E. Cowles Jr., MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Troy Fiesinger, MD, Memorial Family Medicine Residency Pro- gram, Sugar Land
Shkelzen Hoxhaj, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Felix Hull, MD, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galves- ton-Austin Programs
Girish Premji Joshi, MD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Christine E. Koerner, MD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
David Mercier, MD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Elizabeth A. Nelson, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (now at The University of Texas Dell Medical School)
Carl David Rowlett, MD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Richard Strax, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Lucas Wong, MD, Baylor Scott & White/Texas A&M Health Sci- ence Center, Temple
2015 BRONZE LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT RECIPIENTS
Lindsay K. Botsford, MD, Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program, Sugar Land
TMA honors academic physicians
JOSE MANUEL DE LA ROSA, MD, of El Paso, received the Platinum Award, the top honor in the TMA Award for Excellence in Academic Medicine pro- gram, during TexMed 2015. The multilevel award program, cre-
ated in 2012 by TMA’s Subcommittee for Academic Physicians, recognizes academic physicians who are consum- mate teachers, role models, and medi- cal professionals. A physician selection committee chooses the platinum win- ner from a pool of physician applicants in the gold-level recognition category. Physicians can self-submit applica- tions or nominate others for bronze-, silver-, and gold-level recognition, based on their years in an academic position. “I am honored to be recognized for doing what I love,” Dr. de la Rosa said.
“As a pediatrician, I felt compelled to teach; not only teach the families I cared for, but the students navigat- ing their way through medical school. This award is icing on a career I truly have been blessed to live.” Throughout his more than 25-year
career, the board-certified pediatri- cian has mentored a host of medical students, residents, and physician fac- ulty members. Dr. de la Rosa serves as provost
and vice president for academic af- fairs at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso, where he continues to teach. He also oversees Student Services, Educational Affairs, the Office of Diversity Affairs, and the Office of Global Health Affairs. He was the founding dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, leading the school’s accreditation process. Be- fore the medical school’s creation, he served as regional dean of the El Paso Regional Academic Health Center. For several years, he oversaw residency training at his institution. As founding dean of the first medi- cal school on the U.S.-Mexico border,
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