Family docs climb TMA ranks

TAFP’s current president, Linda Siy, M.D., along with Academy leaders Douglas Curran, M.D., Lewis Foxhall, M.D., and Troy Fiesinger, M.D., have been appointed to leadership positions within the Texas Medical Association.

Curran, of Athens, will chair a new TMA committee created to address the policy issues of health system reform. Members of the Select Committee on Health System Reform will review current TMA policies and prepare recommendations on how to best deal with the state’s uninsured population for the 2009 TMA House of Delegates.

Fiesinger, of Conroe, will chair the TMA Committee on Physician Distribution and Health Care Access. Along with Siy, of Fort Worth, the committee will analyze the trends in distribution and supply of health care providers in Texas and their impact on patients’ access to health care.

Foxhall, of Houston, will chair the Ad Hoc Committee on Managed Care and Insurance, a branch of the Council on Legislation charged with framing the debate on insurance and managed care in preparation for the 81st session and, in the interim, will provide data and testimony on the state’s department of insurance to the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission.