MacClements named UTHSCT department head

TAFP member Jonathan MacClements, M.D., has been named chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. MacClements is also an associate professor, director of medical education and program director of the family medicine residency program. MacClements succeeds Richard Viken, M.D., who served as chair for 16 years.

MacClements received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989. He received additional training in general medicine and ear, nose and throat surgery at the University of Pretoria, and completed a family medicine residency at UTHSCT in 1996.

In addition to his position within the residency program, MacClements is a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner, serves as the health authority for the North East Texas Public Health Department Board, and volunteers as a lieutenant colonel in the Texas Medical Rangers.