David Pope, Jr., MDĪfter graduating high school second in his class, getting his medical degree from Tulane, an Air Force internship, flight surgeon school, and a residency at a charity hospital, Pope fulfilled his calling and became a practicing family physician in 1961. Read more on Falcon’s life at Physician Emeritus: H. Sometimes we forget how important the human touch is.” Don’t ever forget to tell your patient something nice about them when they are in that office with you. It’s just incredible how one act of kindness can be worth more than 10 prescription drugs. He is also a current member of the Texas Health and Human Services Council, mentors medical students through the Texas Statewide Family Medicine Preceptorship Program, and serves as a clinical assistant professor for UTMB.Īfter accepting the award, Falcon gave a little advice to his colleagues. He co-chaired Governor Perry’s Proposition 12 campaign in 2003, recently served on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, and was a presidential appointee to the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission. Falcon also helped the community receive an additional nursing home, dialysis centers, and a permanent MRI. He has been practicing in Rio Grande City since 1980 and remains a staple of the community, helping to bring the first specialists to town in the mid-1980s because patients could not afford the drive to McAllen for appointments.
Physician of the Year: Antonio Falcon, MDįalcon returned to his hometown in the Rio Grande Valley after completing medical school in Houston and a residency in Waco. Saturday’s Annual Business and Awards Lunch began with members present voting to adopt the TAFP bylaws changes. TAFP’s 2015 Award Recipients and New Officers Farron Hunt, MD Shivum Agarwal, MD and Chis Trinh were elected to serve as the special constituencies director, the resident physician director, and the medical student director respectively. Delegates from TAFP’s local chapters elected Brett Johnson, MD, and Christina Kelly, MD, to serve as at-large directors, and Emily Briggs, MD, to serve as the new physician director on the TAFP Board of Directors.
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AAFP board member Jack Chou, MD, of California addressed attendees Sunday morning on advocacy, education, and family medicine for the nation’s health.Ĭlare Hawkins, MD, gave a TAFP update during Friday’s Member Assembly Luncheon. The rest of the weekend’s CME included topics on risk evaluation and mitigation strategies for extended-release and long-acting opioid analgesics, common teen eating disorders, an ethics talk on cancer survivorship, a discourse on Medicare’s new payment structure after the repeal of the SGR, and much more. The CME general session opened Friday morning with a presentation by TAFP CEO Tom Banning on the state of the Academy and of family medicine during this time of great change.
Thank you also to Cory and Melissa Gerdes, MD Nancy and Tim Lambert, MD and ProAssurance for being Silver Level sponsors, and to Edwin Franks, MD, and Lisa and Jake Margo, Jr., MD, for being Bronze Level sponsors. Thank you to Baylor Scott & White The Dallas County Chapter of TAFP Lewis Foxhall, MD Memorial Hermann Health System Texas Medical Association and Texas Medical Liability Trust for being Gold Level sponsors. The TAFP Foundation held a cocktail cruise on The Woodlands Waterway to benefit the Tamra Deuser, MD, Endowment. Click to view photos from Annual Session.
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