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TXACP Services Advocate of the Year Award
TXACP Services, the advocacy arm of the Texas Chapter of the ACP, is pleased to present the Advocate of the Year award, named in honor of the first recipients, Ned Snyder III, MD, FACP, and Delbert L. Chumley, MD, FACP. The awardee must be a registered Key Contact who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the areas of legislative advocacy and grassroots activism. The Advocate of the Year has consistently communicated concerns on behalf of TAIM Services to elected officials on issues and unfailingly responded to legislative alerts, as well as served as a community spokesperson on behalf of internal medicine and patients. In addition, this person has expanded the Chapter's advocacy program, recruited new Key Contacts, and actively participated in Leadership Day visits and/or other meetings with legislators and staff.
Dr. David Winter received a bachelor of science in biology with honors from Lamar University in 1972, his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1975, and completed a medical internship and residency at Baylor University Medical Center in 1978. He started a solo practice at Baylor and later went on to found MedProvider, a group practice in Dallas, Texas that now includes 50 physicians. In 1994, this group became one of the founding members of HealthTexas, a physician group in partnership with Baylor Health Care System. He is the current chairman and chief medical officer of HealthTexas which includes 118 different practice sites and almost 500 physicians in North Texas. A student, leader, and teacher of physician organizations, Dr. Winter received a Master of Science in Medical Management from the University of Texas at Dallas where he currently serves as an adjunct professor. Dr. Winter has also been a leader of the quality movement in medicine and founded the Quality Improvement Committee of HealthTexas which has led that organization to receive nationwide recognition including the 2008 Top Leadership Team in Health Care from Health Leaders Media. He also is an active teacher through television, radio, and frequent speeches, and hasbeen awarded the Marcus Welby Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from the Academy of Radio and Television Health Communicators, the Jules Bergman Award from the National Association of Medical Communicators, and the Anson Jones, MD, Award for Physician Excellence in Reporting from the Texas Medical Association. His tips on health care can be viewed on the local ABC affiliate, channel 8, and he can be heard on KRLD radio where he serves as their medical expert. Despite his administrative, academic, and media responsibilities, Dr. Winter remains a practicing physician at Baylor University Medical Center. He is married and has two children. TXACP is proud to recognize F. David Winter, MD, FACP, with the Snyder/Chumley Advocate of the Year Award. William J. Deaton, MD, a critical care, pulmonary, and internal medicine specialist, has exhibited a passion for medicine, advocacy, and teaching that began with his graduation from Baylor College of Medicine in 1969 and continues to this day. Dr. Deaton grew up in Waco, and although he spent of good deal of time on Granddad Big Bill’s farm in Oklahoma to “learn the trades of cow milking and okra pickin,’” his mother demanded academic excellence from young Bill. He graduated from Baylor University before attending medical school, where he developed an interest in internal medicine. After a straight medicine internship at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center and two years in the U.S. Air Force in Southeast Asia, Dr. Deaton returned to Houston to complete internal medicine and pulmonary training at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Deaton served on the Baylor faculty from 1975 to 1981, where mentors and peers inspired his passion for the continuing learning process, especially involving the concept evidence-based medicine, that laid the foundation for a continuously cutting-edge career. In 1981, Dr. Deaton left Houston to open a private practice in Austin. That same year saw intensive care introduced into the Austin health care environment. Dr. Deaton was involved in its evolution to the thoroughly up-to-date, evidence-based ICU care that now is available 24/7 in all Central Texas hospitals. Aware that medicine does not operate isolated from the political, economic, and social milieu of America, Dr. Deaton also embraced the role of advocate for his profession and patients. In that capacity, he served as President of the Texas Thoracic Society, Delegate to the Texas Medical Association for two decades, President of TAIM and Board of Directors of TAIM (2000-2002), President of the Travis County Medical Society, Chief of Medical Staff of several hospitals, board member of the Austin Hospital Authority, member of the TAIM Delegation to Washington, member of the Board of Counselors of the Texas Medical Association, Chair of Critical Care Councils and of Travis County Ad Hoc Committee on Indigent Care, and inveterate writer to political representatives. At the top of Dr. Deaton’s advocacy priority is the education of medical students so that the lessons they learn today will allow them to remain on the forefront of medicine tomorrow. Dr. Deaton is proud that Austin’s Brackenridge Hospital’s internal medicine training program, though not university affiliated until the last three years, has had a near 100 percent pass rate for American Board of Internal Medicine. He continues daily rounds with medical students from UTMB, interns, and residents. Dr. Deaton’s wife of 37 years, Patti, passed away in 2006. He enjoys the company of his attorney daughters, Carolyn and Christina, and No. 1 grandson William Michael Atkinson, 11 months old and “already a scholar.” TAIM is proud to recognize William J. Deaton, MD, with the TAIMS Chumley/Snyder Advocate of the Year Award. Spencer R. Berthelsen, MD, FACP Dr. Spencer R. Berthelsen, MD, FACP, is the 2007 recipient of the Chumley/Snyder Advocate of the Year Award. Dr. Berthelsen has been an outstanding steward of advocacy for the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine (TAIM) over many years and truly represents the idea of "servant leadership."
Dr. Berthelsen was raised in Houston Texas and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bellaire High School. He attended Rice University and graduated AOA from Southwestern Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California in San Diego and has been in practice with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston since 1980. Dr Berthelsen now serves as Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of this prestigious Houston clinic. Dr. Berthelsen has served with distinction on the Texas Medical Association Council on Legislation since 2000 and was Council Chair from 2003 through 2005 during two very contentious legislative sessions. Several factors presented a considerable challenge to realizing medicine's initiatives in 2003: a new speaker of the house, new lieutenant governor, more than 25 freshman members, and the biggest budget deficit in more than a decade. Despite these challenges, Dr. Berthelsen led the charge while medicine achieved landmark legislation on tort reform and prompt pay during the 78th Legislative Session. As Council Chair during the 2005 Legislation Session, Dr. Berthelsen led medicine's defense against threats of taxation of health care services, broadening of allied health practitioners' scope of practice, more funding cuts for the state's health care safety net, and rollbacks of investments in medical education. Dr. Berthelsen served on the TAIM Board of Directors from 2000 through 2003 and was our own TAIM Services President in 2002. He has been active on the local and state levels, and has been a faithful champion for the rights of our patients and the needs of our internists. As TAIM's delegate to the Governor's Ad Hoc Committee on Collaborative Practice, Dr. Berthelsen was an influential member of the committee created as a part of a legislative agreement during the 1995 Texas Legislature for the purpose of providing a forum for nursing, physician assistants, and physicians, to discuss practice and delivery system issues. The Committee was composed of five advanced practice nurses, five physician assistants, and five physicians (one each appointed by TAFP, TAIM, TSA, TAOG, and TPS). The 1997 and 1999 Legislatures enacted "agreed to" legislation as a result of the Committee's work. Because of this approach, novel among the states, the three professions worked in tandem on a variety of additional issues, such as ending the Medicaid fee freeze, managed care reform, and protecting tobacco settlement dollars from non-health related interests, to name several. Dr. Berthelsen was recently appointed to serve on the Texas Health Care System Integrity Partnership Committee which is a newly created advisory board to the State of Texas. It is charged with improving patient safety and healthcare affordability for Texans. Dr. Berthelsen continues to pursue scholarly activities and is currently Professor of Internal Medicine at both Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He has two children and presently lives in Sugar Land with his wife Linda. The Board of Directors of the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine Services is pleased to congratulate Dr Berthelsen on being named the 2007 Advocate of the Year! Carlos R. Hamilton, Jr., MD, FACP Carlos Hamilton graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1966 and trained in internal medicine and endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts General Hospital. He was chief medical resident and assistant professor at Hopkins and later became director of the Endocrine Research Laboratory at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio.
Dr. Hamilton went on to became a partner in the Medical Clinic of Houston and clinical professor at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2001 he joined the UT Health Science Center at Houston as professor of medicine, vice president of clinical affairs, and chairman of UT Physicians, the faculty practice plan. In 2002, he was named executive vice president for external affairs. Dr. Hamilton has been a true advocate for internal medicine on the local, state, and federal levels. He has attended innumerable meetings with legislators and government officials to fight for patient rights and advocate for medicine. In 2004, Dr. Hamilton accompanied TAIM Immediate Past President Joe Cunningham, MD, FACP, to meet with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst about the Texas Senate’s position on medical liability and tort reform. His influence helped facilitate the passing of Proposition 12. In a year of enormous budget cuts, Dr. Hamilton also championed protection of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) with the Texas Legislature. On the national level, Dr. Hamilton has served his TAIM constituents well. He served on the ACP Health and Public Policy Committee with Drs. Lynne Kirk and Wayne Riley. In 1997, he served on the local merger task force of the ASIM. He received the ACP’s Top Ten Key Contact Award at the 1999 Leadership Day in Washington, D.C. In 2003 Dr Hamilton received the prestigious Laureate Award from the Texas ACP Chapter for his dedication to TAIM. He has served as president of Harris County Medical Society and TAIM. He has special interest in Boy Scouts of America and has been a leader in the founding of the Houston Museum of Health and Medical Science. Dr. Hamilton currently serves on the World Anti-Doping Agency, an international sports organization. Dr. Hamilton and his wife, Carolyn, are proud parents of Dr. Carlos Hamilton III an interventional radiologist, and Patricia Bivins, who practices law. They have four grandchildren and all reside in Houston. TAIM is proud to recognize Carlos R. Hamilton, Jr., MD, FACP, with the TAIMS Chumley/Snyder Advocate of the Year Award. Dr. Del Chumley sets the standard as a TAIM Services advocate, serving tirelessly as champion for TAIM Services, medicine, and most importantly, the patients of Texas. As an ACP and TAIM Key Contact, Dr. Chumley has been highly effective and active in communicating the message of internal medicine to local, state and federal legislators. Dr. Chumley worked relentlessly in lobbying for medical liability/lawsuit abuse reform in Texas during the 2003 Legislative Session. His enthusiasm and efforts continued after the session to help ensure passage of the constitutional amendment to cap non-economic damages in medical liability cases.
Dr. Chumley serves by example with regard to grassroots activism on the local level. He and his wife, Louise, were ever present mainstays of the Texas Medical Association's First Tuesdays at the Capitol both in the 2003 and 2005 legislative sessions. Together they were responsible for bringing dozens of Bexar County physicians to Austin to lobby on healthcare issues. Dr. Chumley is active in the Bexar County Medical Society and has been responsible for arranging numerous meetings with influential legislators and candidates for office. Dr. Chumley exemplifies what it means to serve as a leader in political and legislative advocacy, as well as grassroots activism. Dr. Chumley earned a B.S. degree in Zoology from Texas A&M University in College Station in 1967. He went on to earn his M.D. from The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, in 1971. Dr. Chumley completed his fellowship in Gastroenterology at UTMB in 1976. Dr. Chumley is active in many professional organizations including the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine, where he served on the TAIM board of directors from 2000-2003. He served as TAIM Services President-elect from 2001-2002, and President from 2002-2003. Dr. Chumley is a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology, and member of the American Gastroenterology Association, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Texas Medical Association, Bexar County Medical Society, and the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy. Dr. Chumley and his wife Louise have three children. Dr. Ned Snyder espouses the very best qualities of a TAIM Services advocate. As a Key Contact for ACP and TAIM, Dr. Snyder has been very effective, thanks to his personal relationships on the state and federal level, representing the views of our membership and our patients in Washington and Austin. In addition, Dr. Snyder and influential members of his immediate family continue to be active on the local level. He did not hesitate to answer a call from the ACP when a Texas internist was needed to opine on the most recent presidential election. He was published in a "point-counterpoint" editorial piece in the October 2004 ACP Observer with his thoughts on President George W. Bush's tenure as Governor of Texas and his first term as President. Dr. Snyder serves as an example of the successes that can be garnered through the development of personal and professional relationships. He exemplifies what it means to serve as a leader in political and legislative advocacy, as well as grassroots activism. His wife, Dot, shares his passion for politics and grassroots activism.
Dr. Snyder earned a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1966. He continued on with medical studies earning his M.D. from The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston in 1970. He completed his fellowship in Gastroenterology at UTMB in 1974. Dr. Snyder is active in many professional organizations including the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine, where he served on the Board of Directors from 1998-2001. He served as TAIM President-elect from 2001-2002 and as President from 2002-2003. Dr. Snyder is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, American Medical Association, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Alpha Omega Alpha, American Federation of Clinical Research, William Beaumont Society of Gastroenterologists, Texas Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Texas Club of Internists, Texas Medical Association, and American College of Gastroenterology. Dr. Snyder and his wife Dot have two children.
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