TMA appoints family physicians
to leadership posts

Two faculty members with the Austin Medical Education Program were appointed to positions within the Texas Medical Association. Dana Sprute, M.D., was re-elected to the council on public health for a three-year term and David Wright, M.D., was appointed to the council on medical education for a one-year term.

Jonathan MacClements, M.D., of Tyler is the newest member of TMA’s Committee on Physician Distribution and Health Care Access, established to help identify needed improvements to the state physician education loan repayment. He joins Chair Troy Fiesinger, M.D., of Conroe; Donald D. Cole, III, M.D., of Austin; D. Michael Ready, M.D., of Temple; Peter Valenzuela, M.D., M.B.A., of Odessa; Robert Young, M.D., of Amarillo; and resident Eddie J. Turner, Jr., M.D., of Houston.

Lloyd Van Winkle, M.D., of Castroville has been appointed to serve a one-year term on the TMA Committee on Rural Health. This committee works toward the improvement of rural health, reviews and comments on governmental laws and regulations that have an impact on rural practices, and educates physicians and the public about the concerns of rural medicine.