2020 TCEP Board of Directors Nominee
1. Please provide us with your Medical School and graduation date. Also include your current positions held with a brief description of your duties. University of Texas Medical School, Houston, 1991. Currently Medical Director Connally Memorial Medical Center Emergency Department, Floresville, TX. Member of Medical Executive Committee. Associate Clinical Professor, University of Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine. Produce ED physician schedule, train/orient new physicians, interface weekly with administration and medical staff, chart reviews, supervise and provide didactic teaching to rotating medical students, attend monthly directors’ meetings with Victoria Emergency Associates. 2. Tell us about your involvement in TCEP. Member/Fellow since 1996 3. Convey to us your goals as a Director and what you see as the pressing issues facing Emergency Physicians in the next three years. Goals: Administrative interference in the form of non-validated metrics and satisfaction surveys is also an area where EPs across Texas need support and data to help them in their efforts to curb these cumbersome and dangerous practices. Physician wellness must involve more than take-out pizza and (perhaps) well-intended platitudes. Recognition by administration as well as other physicians in general of the incredible work ED physicians do daily will help to raise awareness of the crisis present in EDs across the state. Potential cuts to reimbursement both on the federal level and by large Contract Management Groups must be met head-on with a united front. We provide more uncompensated care than anyone, and we cannot accept even less. 4. Please provide a brief description of family, community and professional activities, and hobbies. We have lived in Boerne for almost 25 years. My wife and I have 3 grown children, all out of the house, with one grandchild and another on the way. After 12 years of full-time Emergency Medicine, I started an Urgent Care Center with an EM partner. We grew into 4 locations and over 60 employees. After selling the practice, I returned again to full-time EM a little over 2 years ago, and I’m loving it. Working in a rural location with solid nurses and a collegial medical staff has reinvigorated me and renewed my confidence that being truly happy in EM is not only a possibility, but should be an expectation. My wife and I work with young people (service missionaries for our church) ages 18-25 in the San Antonio and Austin area, coordinating volunteer efforts with a number of community organizations and charities. We work closely with Food Banks, Catholic Charities, Haven for Hope, The Salvation Army, and Ronald McDonald Houses. Some of these missionaries face significant physical, mental, or emotional challenges, and giving them a chance to serve others in a meaningful way is certainly rewarding to us, but more importantly, it is a tremendous blessing to them and their families. Hobbies include scuba diving, hiking and rafting the Grand Canyon, shooting sports, and hunting. |
