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Biographies of the nominees for election to the TAIM Board of Directors
Sue S. Bornstein, MD, FACP Dr. Bornstein is a native Dallasite. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors with a degree in English literature in 1974. After undergraduate school, she received a Masters’ degree in Studies in Aging from the University of North Texas and served as an administrator of non-profit homes for the aged in Dallas and San Antonio for ten years. Finally unable to ignore the small voice that kept telling her she really wanted to be a doctor like her father, she resigned her position and went back to school for two years to complete her basic science requirements at UT San Antonio. Sue attended Texas Tech School of Medicine, completing her clinical years in El Paso. She was the recipient of the Gold Headed Cane award at Texas Tech. After graduation in 1992, she completed her residency in internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. She formed a practice with two other physicians and became involved in the medical staff leadership at Baylor, ultimately being elected President of the Medical Staff. Sue’s proudest achievement at Baylor was being recognized as the Outstanding Teacher in General Internal Medicine by the BUMC housestaff four times. Sue also founded and led the Baylor Women Physicians Forum. Sue became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2003. She served as Treasurer of the Texas Chapter of ACP Services in 2007 and 2008 and was a member of its Executive Committee and has represented the Texas Chapter of the ACP on the TMA’s Interspecialty Society for the last 3 years. She has served as an Associates Poster Judge three times. Dr. Bornstein has been active in the Dallas County Medical Society as well, serving as a member and then Chair of the Board of Censors. She was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the DCMS in 2006 and served as member of its Executive Committee. She is currently a DCMS delegate to the TMA. After leaving private practice in 2005, she worked for a year on the palliative care consult service at BUMC and served as a clinical ethics consultant as well. Sue worked for a year as a consultant with the Bard Group, a physician-led consulting firm in Boston that specializes in physician-hospital relationships and medical staff redesign. In 2008 the opportunity to become involved in health care reform through the Texas ACP’s medical home initiative became available and Sue is now serving as the Executive Director of the initiative. In her spare time, she loves to swim in a master’s group and loves all things pertaining to fly fishing, including making fly rods. Sue and her partner Alex Gillespie share their home with two four legged kids. Stephen J. Sibbitt, MD, FACP Dr. Stephen Sibbitt, is a Fellow of the ACP, and is the Chief Medical Officer of Scott & White Memorial Hospital. Born and raised in Canada, Dr. Sibbitt completed his Honors Bachelor of Science degree at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He then went on to complete both his Medical Degree and Master of Science degree with the American University of the Caribbean. Dr. Sibbitt completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX, in 1997. He remained at UTMB to complete a Chief Residency year and then became the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine residency in 1998. Dr. Sibbitt joined TAMU-Scott & White in 2003 as the Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency, and assumed the role of Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Texas A&M Health Science Center – Scott & White, from February 2005 until October 2008. Dr. Sibbitt's has participated with the American Board of Internal Medicine and Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, on residency education projects. Dr. Sibbitt currently is the Chief Medical Officer of Scott & White Memorial Hospital since March, 2007. He also serves as the Vice President, Board of Directors, for Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital, and is a member of the Corporate and Community Board of Directors for Metroplex Adventist Hospital, Inc. Dr. Sibbitt's participation with the ACP began with the South Texas ACP regional Associate events where he served as an abstract reviewer (2003), judge (2005), and Program Chairman (2006); during his tenure as Program Director, the TAMU-Scott & White Internal Medicine residency program enjoyed significant success in participation with the South Texas ACP Associates meeting, earning many first place finishes in all categories. In 2006 Dr. Sibbitt was elected to the board of directors of Texas ACP (TAIM) and has served in that capacity for 3 years. For the past two years Dr. Sibbitt has participated in the annual Texas ACP Scientific meeting serving as ‘presenter and instructor’ for ‘American Board of Internal Medicine, Maintenance of Certification, Self-Evaluation Program (SEP) Modules, and as abstract reviewer and judge for the students and Associates competitions. He became a Fellow of the ACP in March 2009. Michael Keith Schrader, MD Dr. Keith Schrader is a native of Fort Worth and attended Texas A&M University, where he earned his BS with University Honors in Biomedical Science. He then earned his medical degree from UT Southwestern before moving to North Carolina to complete an internship and residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Schrader returned to north Texas and joined a practice started by Dr. Scott Yates. The practice has evolved over the years since, and today, Dr. Schrader, Dr Yates, and Dr Michael Bond practice in Plano as the Center for Executive Medicine. The group participates in a variety of quality improvement projects as well as serving as a site for clinical research trials. Dr. Schrader is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and an active member of the American College of Physicians. He is a member of the medical staff of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Plano, Baylor Plano Medical Center and Select Specialty Hospitals. His appointments have included Chief of Medicine as well as membership and chairmanship of multiple committees and governing boards. He is currently a member of the Health and Public Policy Committee of the Texas Chapter of the ACP Services and serves as a preceptor for the General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program as well as a preceptor for students from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Schrader and his wife live in Allen with their son and daughter. John D. “Jack” Myers, MD Jack Myers was born and raised in Temple, Texas. He attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas where he completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. He then attended Texas A&M College of Medicine in College Station and received his medical degree in 1997. He completed his internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic – Rochester, became Board Certified in Internal Medicine in 2000, and stayed on as faculty at Mayo for one year following his residency training. Because of family interests, Jack and his wife moved back to Texas and he started working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Texas A&M/Scott and White Hospital in 2001. At that time, Jack was named an Associate Clerkship Director for the third year medicine clerkship through Texas A&M Health Sciences Center. He served in that role until 2005. In 2005, Jack took the role of Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Scott and White, and then transitioned into Program Director in 2008 and currently serves in that role. Jack has been involved in teaching as a preceptor in the medical student clinic, and resident clinic as well as a ward attending since joining Scott and White in 2001. He has completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina from 2005-2007. He was named Outstanding Educator by the Department of Medicine in 2005, and Most Outstanding Internal Medicine Faculty by the TAMU/HSC Class of 2005. He was inducted into AOA as a faculty member in 2007. Jack has been involved in several ACP activities including two poster presentations with resident associate members in 2008, South Texas ACP (STACP) Research Reviewer 2005, STACP Research Judge 2007, 2008, and on the Texas Chapter of the ACP Associates Committee 2009. Jack is an active member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) serving on the E-Learning Task Force, as well as AOA, the Mayo Alumni Association, and is a member of Phi Delta Theta national fraternity. He enjoys spending time with his wife Shannon, and his three children Katherine (9), Genevieve (7), and Preston (2). He enjoys long distance running and has completed seven marathons and several half marathons. He is active in his church and currently serves on the Administrative Board, acting as chairman in 2008. Ami Sen, MD, JD, FACP Dr. Sen graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed her Residency in Internal Medicine at Baylor as well. She is board-certified and recertified in Internal Medicine and has been a member of the ACP since Residency. Dr. Sen is a medical director with a Medicare HMO and is involved in utilization, quality, and case management, credentialing, appeals, risk management, and the teaching and mentoring of Pharmacy Residents. Previously, Dr. Sen was in clinical practice with a large multi-specialty group. Dr. Sen also has a JD from South Texas College of Law in Houston and has been a licensed attorney in the State of Texas since 2006. Alejandro Moreno, MD, MPH, JD, FACP, FCLM Dr. Alejandro Moreno joined the faculty of the Internal Medicine Department of the Austin Medical Education Programs (now the University of Texas Medical Branch Austin Residency Program in Internal Medicine) in April 2002. He currently holds a faculty position as Associate Program Director and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine. Dr. Moreno attended the Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud in Medellín, Colombia graduating in 1992. In 1997, he completed his residency training at the Boston University Medical Center Residency Program in Internal Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Moreno went on to a Fellowship Program in General Internal Medicine with the Boston University Medical Center and received a Master of Public Health from the Boston University School of Public Health in May 2000. Dr. Moreno also holds a law degree from the St. Mary’s University School of Law. Dr. Moreno is an expert in the care of refugees and victims of torture, an area in which he has published extensively. He is board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He also practices immigration law. Dr. Moreno has been a member of the American College of Physicians since 1996. He is currently a Fellow of the College. Since 2007, he has served in the College’s Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee. Dr. Moreno has overseen his residency program’s abstract and poster submission for the Southwest Texas Associates’ Meeting (STAM) since 2002 and served as a judge of the Meeting’s poster competition in 2004 and 2009. He will organize the STAM in 2010. He also served as a faculty during the College’s 2009 annual meeting, presenting at the Ethics Year in Review session. Pete Yunyongying, MD Pete Yunyongying is a recent transplant to Texas after moving from his home on the East Coast. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, before spending his undergraduate years in Providence, Rhode Island earning a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Brown University. He moved back to Maryland to complete his medical school at University of Maryland. He finally came to Texas to complete his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at University of Texas-Southwestern. After completing his residency training, he stayed on faculty at the Veterans Administration Hospital. He has since completed additional training in medical education through USC Keck School of Medicine. In addition to his clinical duties, while on faculty, he has been active in many educational efforts, including serving on curricular committees for the MS3 and MS4 Internal Medicine clerkships as well as the Residency Program curricular committees. He also serves as co-course director for Resident’s journal club and has recently developed and implemented a continuous quality improvement course for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Yunyongying has also remained active in the civic community with a focus on the visual and performing arts. He serves as a docent for the Crow Collection of Asian Art as well as being an active member of the steering committees for the young professionals groups of the Crow Collection of Asian Art (JADE), the Dallas Opera Company (Amici di Opera) and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts (Marquee Circle). Roger S. Khetan, MD, FACP Dr. Khetan is an identical twin born in Zanesville, Ohio, and he lived in West Virginia, Colorado, Louisiana, and Texas prior to finishing undergraduate work at Texas A&M University and medical education at the University of Texas Medical School-Houston. He did an internship in Internal Medicine at UT Houston in 1994 followed by 10 months of Anesthesiology residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He returned to UT Houston to finish a residency in Internal Medicine in 1998 where he received the award from the medical students as resident teacher of the year, and stayed on as one of the Chief Medicine Residents till 1999. His twin brother, Rainer, and he started the Medprovider Inpatient Care Unit (a HealthTexas hospitalist group) at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) – Dallas in August 1999 which has grown from 5 to 17 internists/ internists-pediatricians presently, and he continues to serve as co Medical Director. He is also the chairman of the integration committee for all HealthTexas hospitalists in the Baylor Health Care System (BHCS). He is actively involved in the quality arena serving as a speaker and collaborative director for the Texas Medical Foundation as well as serving on multiple committees at the hospital including patient safety, quality, pharmacy and therapeutics. He is the current system physician champion for hospitalist/internal medicine for BHCS responsible for standardizing inpatient care for pneumonia, congestive heart failure, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke while also serving as the champion for medication reconciliation throughout BHCS. He is a full time hospitalist and performs the other duties in addition to his practice of Internal Medicine/hospitalist. Ranier and he also have started a preoperative clinic at BUMC to assist with perioperative and postoperative care of surgical patients at BUMC starting in July 2007. He is an associate attending at BUMC where he also serves as a teaching attending for 4 to 5 weeks a year. He is actively involved in his local medical society, with service in 2006 till December 2007 on the Board of Directors of the Dallas County Medical Society (DCMS) as well as serving as the chairman of the communications committee for DCMS. He served as a Delegate for TexMed in May 2007 at the TMA annual meeting, and he began his term as an at-large member for the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine/Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians on February 2008 to December 2010. He begins service on the TMA council of health professions in September 2009. He also volunteers via Project Access in Dallas. His military duty is significant for serving in the Air Force reserves from 1997 to 2003 and being called up to active duty from January 2002 to July 2002. His most adamant outside activity is working out and playing with his two nieces and nephew who live next door.
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