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. • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. May 17th 2019 • Fort Worth Emergency Medicine Residency EMRA program representive (2019-present)- Delegate for the residency program to the EMRA representative council. Function as a communication link between EMRA and the program, responsible for forming resolutions, voicing concerns to the council during annual conferences and town hall meetings. • Resident Member of JPS Patient Safety and Quality Governance Committee (2019-present)- Nonvoting resident member who attends monthly hospital policy meetings. PSQG committee tracks hospital infection rates, patient falls, sentinel events and works with membership to address hospital policy solutions. 2. Tell us about your involvement in TCEP. My involvement in TCEP and ACEP was limited to student membership throughout medical school due to my enrollment in multiple graduate program tracks. Now that I can dedicate 100% of my time and energy to Emergency Medicine, I am wanting to expand my involvement in representative medicine within the state of Texas and beyond. 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. My goals if elected as the Resident Board Member would be to continue to advocate for Emergency Medicine and help motivate and educate residents around Texas to the challenges we face as a profession. One major concern I have is the pressure from Washington D.C to cut costs in healthcare. All too often, Emergency Departments take the blame for rising costs with new legislation seeking to artificially control how we provide care or how we are compensated for our hard work. Moving into the next congress and new administrations, it is imperative that Emergency Medicine organizations position themselves to help policy makers understand the impact we have on patients who often have no other access to healthcare and shed light on how we step up to fill the gaps in our current system. Additionally, every year emergency departs become inodiated with more patients placing strain on our current work force levels. Our priorities moving forward should be to train more board-certified emergency physicians to fill this demand and to remain skeptical of hospital administrations attempting to substitute our experience with APPs in order to incentivize cost savings at the detriment to patient care and safety. 4. Please provide a brief description of family, community and professional activities, and hobbies. My wife Katie and I welcomed our first child into the world May 20th 2019. Lynden Jacob Philpott is now almost 9 months old and is nothing but joy. Lynden was born with bilateral club feet and has required weekly and monthly visits at Scottish Rite for casting and bracing. So far, he has exceeded all expectations and is well on his way to crawling. He currently loves family walks with our two dogs, Maddie and Remi, jumping in his bouncer and trying new foods. Outside of family time at home, my family roots for our Texas Tech Red Raiders every chance we can. When the work schedule and weather permits, we try to spend as much time as possible outside enjoying the many state parks Texas has to offer. |
