TMA Foundation Grants Funds to Help Improve Texans ’ Health
Texans from the panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley will benefit from $13,510 in Texas Medical Association Foundation (TMAF) grant funding for health-improvement projects. TMAF awarded the funds to five county medical societies, TMA medical student chapters, and county chapters of the TMA Alliance(TMA physician members and their spouses who volunteer for TMA outreach programs). (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - February 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Amarillo Physician Named Top TMA Foundation Champion of Health
The Texas Medical Association Foundation (TMAF) presented its top 2018 John P. McGovern Champion of Health Award to Alan Keister, MD, founder of Heal the City Free Clinic (HTC), an urgent care facility in Amarillo. TMAF presented the award at 2018 TMA Winter Conference in Austin on Saturday. The award is TMAF ’s highest honor, and it recognizes exceptional projects that address urgent public health threats and furthers TMAF’s mission to help physicians create a healthier future for all Texans. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Austin ’s Kind Clinic Wins TMA Foundation’s Champion of Health Secondary Award
The Texas Medical Association Foundation (TMAF) presented its 2018 John P. McGovern Champion of Health Secondary Award to the Kind Clinic of Austin. The clinic won for its Pill that Prevents HIV program, an HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) program. The clinic provides patients with PrEP, a daily pill that can prevent HIV infection, at low or no cost. The Champion of Health Secondary Award recognizes exceptional projects like this one that address urgent public health threats and furthers TMAF ’s mission to help physicians create a healthier future for all Texans. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Join Torres Center ’s First Anniversary Walk With a Doc Texas Event This Week
Houston residents of all ages are encouraged to lace up their walking shoes and join Ana Torres, MD, for her Houston clinic ’s first anniversary Walk With a Doc (WWAD) Texas event. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Maternal Health, Cyber Liability Highlight State Health Conference Saturday
Women dying after childbirth, criminals hacking into medical records, universal health care coverage, and doctors fighting misinformation are some of the important topics physicians and other experts will cover at 2018 Texas Medical Association (TMA) Winter Conference, in Austin. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
