BCMS Chief Governmental and
Community Relations Officer
We cannot say "Thank
You" enough to our physician members, Alliance members, and
medical student and staff representatives who donated their time
and energy to participate during the First Tuesdays visits to the
Capitol and/or provide testimony on medicine's issues during the
83rd Legislative Session.
Once again, we'd like to
recognize all of this session's participants:
FIRST TUESDAYS
Harrison Bowes, MD; Samuel Burns,
MD; Cynthia Casteel, MD; Chelsea Clinton, MD; Suresh Dutta, MD;
Robert Frolichstein, MD; Sanjuanita Garza-Cox, MD; Michael Guirl,
MD; Pam Hall, MD; David Henkes, MD; Jim Humphreys, MD; Margaret
Kelley, MD; Alexander Kenton, MD; Scott Kercheville, MD; Vijay
Koli, MD; Ashok Kumar, MD; Robert Luedecke, MD; Jesse Moss Jr., MD;
BCMS President Gabriel Ortiz, MD; Raymond Osbourn, MD; Jaime
Pankowsky, MD; Rajam Ramamurthy, MD; Janet Realini, MD; Walter
Root, MD; David Shulman, MD; Tom Spurgat, MD; Maria Tiamson-Beato,
MD; BCMS Alliance President Lee Robin; Alliance members Jun Beato,
MD, Cindy Comfort and Anne Foster; third-year medical student
Leonel Lopez; Rick White, practice administrator for Greater San
Antonio Emergency Physicians, and BCMS CEO/Executive Director, John
Wisniewski.
PHYSICIAN
TESTIMONY
Richard Benedikt, MD; John
Holcomb, MD; Jim Humphreys, MD; Janet Realini, MD; and Buddy Swift,
MD.
PHYSICIAN OF
THE DAY
Also during the legislative
session, several BCMS members participated as Physician of the Day
at the Capitol. These physicians volunteered their time to
spend a day at the Capitol's clinic. Many thanks to the
following physicians who participated: Francisco Barrera, MD;
Michael Dominguez, MD; Mitch Finnie, MD; Gabriel Ortiz, MD; and
Horacio Ramirez, MD.
For local discussion on these and other
legislative topics, consider joining the BCMS Legislative
and Socioeconomics Committee by contacting Mary Nava at mary.nava@bcms.org.
