AAFP honors new Fellows for 2009

Congratulations to the newest TAFP members to receive the AAFP Degree of Fellow. These members were recognized during the Fellowship Convocation Breakfast on Oct. 17, 2009, in Boston, Mass. They join the more than 29,000 members around the country to receive this honor.

The Texas inductees are as follows:

• Timothy Dwain Barker, M.D., of Waco;
• Lorie Cram, M.D., of Houston;
• Nora O. Garza, M.D., of San Antonio;
• Melissa Susan Gerdes, M.D., of Whitehouse;
• John Howard Gill, M.D., of Waco;
• Lesca C. Hadley, M.D., of Cleburne;
• Suhaib W. Haq, M.D., of Helotes;
• Jerome K. Hemmert, M.D., of Kingsville;
• Melanie L. Mencer-Parks, M.D., of Houston; and
• Sharon Elizabeth Tucker, M.D., of Mesquite.

The Degree of Fellow, established in 1971 by the AAFP Congress of Delegates and revised in 1992, honors AAFP members who have distinguished themselves among their colleagues and in their communities by their service to family medicine, the advancement of health care to the American people, and by their professional development through medical education and research.