Communications Committee

Constitution and Bylaws Committee

ED/EMS Advisory Committee

Mediation Committee

Medical Legislation Committee

Membership Committee

Physician Health and Rehabilitation Committee

Public Health Committee

Public Relations Committee

Communications Committee

The TCMS Communication Committee provides policy oversight for offered publications of the TCMS including editorial and advertising policy for the Journal, Pictorial Directory, Newsletter and Website.

Adam Weinfeld, MD - Chair (512) 324-0919

Scott Daniels, MD

Declan Fleming, MD

Harish Gagneja, MD

Timothy C. Gueramy, MD

Tracey A. Haas, DO

Pradeep Kumar, MD

Moise Levy, MD

Jeffrey Michel, MD

Andrea Pana, MD

Robina Poonawala, MD

Raju Reddy, MD

Richard M. Turbin, MD

Vani Vallabhaneni, MD

Owen E. Winsett, MD - Editor

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Constitution and Bylaws Committe

William Caldwell, MD - Chair (512) 454-0406

Archibald Alexander, MD

Ruy Carrasco, MD

Vineet Choudhry, MD

Stephanie Roth, MD

Adam Weinfeld, MD

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ED/EMS Advisory Committee

The ED/EMS Advisory Committee advises the Medical Director of Austin Travis County EMS on strategic clinical issues, standards and protocols and such other issues as may be requested by the Medical Director.

Stefan P. Hood, MD - Chair (512) 947-1897

Michael M. Albrecht, MD

Brian Aldred, MD

Whitney G. Bludworth, MD

Carlos V. Brown, MD

Jose G. Cabanas, MD

Thomas B. Coopwood, MD

Thomas B. Coopwood, Jr., MD

Michael L. Craun, MD

Patrick J. Crocker, DO

David Dolinak, MD

Amanda J. Dupont, MD

Kent T. Ellington, MD

Wade B. Etheredge, MD

Corey R. Fearheiley, MD

W. Drew Fielder, MD

Nilda M. Garcia, MD

Lawrence A. Hauser, MD

Paul R. Hinchey, MD

Irfan H. Hydari, MD

Jeff Jarvis, MD

Corey R. Jones, MD

James M. Kempema, MD

B. Duke Kimbrough, MD

Edward Y. Lee, MD

Thomas R. McMinn, MD

Todd A. Nash, MD

Michael H. Nguyen, MD

Daniel L. Peterson, MD

Rhett A. Reed, MD

Sam S. Roberts, III, MD

William Ross Tobleman, MD

Laura Waltrip, MD

Ira B. Wood, III, MD

Christopher Ziebell, MD   

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Mediation Committee

The Mediation Committee has the responsibility for receiving, investigating, and mediating complaints from patients against members of the Society.

Roberta Braun, MD - Chair (512) 472-5500

Melanie Marie Belt, MD

W. Thomas Caven, MD

Georgeanne Freeman, DO

David Garza, MD

Thomas Helms, MD

Louis Kennedy Hine, MD

David Morris, MD

Juan Nieto, MD

Harris Rose, MD

Anish Shah, DO

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Medical Legislation Committee

The Medical Legislation committee assists in securing the enactment and enforcement of appropriate medical and health care legislation, in cooperation with the TMA Council on Legislation.

Dawn Buckingham, MD - Chair (512) 583-2020

Neal Foley, MD

J P Forage, MD           

Katharina Hathaway, MD

Thomas Kim, MD

Larry Lewellyn, DO

Al Lindsey, MD

J. Todd Scharnberg, MD

S. Matthew Schocket, MD

Consultants
Archie Alexander, MD, JD

William D. Caldwell, MD

Ruy Carrasco, MD

Robert Cowan, MD
David Duhon, MD

Toni Funicella, MD

Steve Gigliotti, MD

Mary Gonzales, MD

Albert Gros, MD

Jeffrey M. Jekot, MD

Jeffrey Kahn, MD

Greg Kronberg, MD

Henry Legere, MD

Anand D. Patel, MD
Deborah Peel, MD
Patrick Pevoto, MD

Jack W. Pierce, MD

James Prentice, MD
Clift Price, MD

Catherine Scholl, MD

Simona Scumpia, MD
Dana Sprute, MD

Sharilyn Stanley, MD

Susanne Tetzlaff

Stanley Wang, MD, JD

Andrew Weary, MD

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Membership Committee

Oversees programs and activities for membership recruitment and retention.

Sean M. Blaydon, MD - Chair (512) 458-2141

Charles "Bill" Bailey, MD
Michelle A. Berger, MD

C. Mark Chassay, MD

Scott W. Clitheroe, MD

Harinder K. Dhir, MD
Harish K. Gagneja, MD
Ashwin Gowda, MD

Indu R. Gupta, MD

J.  Lowell Haro, MD

Faraz Kerendi, MD
Daniel J. Leeman, MD

Jason E. Lowenstein, MD

Christopher R. Manees, MD
Jerald A. Mankovsky, MD

Amin G. Mery, MD

William R. Otto, MD

Tushar N. Shah, MD

Thomas O. Shelton, III, MD

Todd R. Shepler, MD

Sarah Smiley, DO

Christopher D. Vije, MD
David S. Wishnew, MD

Richard M. Wupperman, MD
Guadalupe "Pete" Zamora, MD

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Physician Health and Rehabilitation Committee

This committee operates as a medical peer review committee as that term is defined in the Texas Medical Practice Act. The committee identifies and urges treatment and rehabilitation, where appropriate, to physicians of Travis County and Central Texas. The committee aids physicians whose ability to practice medicine is impaired, or reasonably believed to be impaired, by drug or alcohol abuse or mental or physical illness. It identifies and offers assistance to physicians who are impaired. It shall coordinate its activities with and abide by the guidelines issued by the TMA Committee on Physician Health and Rehabilitation.

Rodney Schmidt, MD - Chair  (512) 795-5100 

James Maynard, MD– Co-Chair

Emily Doyle, MD

William Franklin, MD

Constance E. George, MD

Tim Hines, MD

David G. Jones, MD

Matthew Masters, MD

Ann Messer, MD

Herbert Munden, MD

Larry Tokaz, MD

Dennis Tweedy, MD

Marilyn Vache, MD

Joseph Wakefield, MDMark White, DO

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Public Health Committee

The Public Health Committee works to foster communication and cooperation on current public health issues between the health department and practicing physicians.

Phil Huang, MD - Chair (512) 972-5855 

Mathis Blackstock, MD

Maya Bledsoe, MD

Kim Carter, MD

Marilyn Doyle, MD

Dayna Diven, MD

Kimberly Avila Edwards, MD

Lisa Ellis, MD

Nancy Thorne Foster, MD

Leonor B. Frierson-Stroud, MD

Arshad Ghauri, MD

Katharina Hathaway, MD

Claire Hebner, MD

Amanda “Amy” LaViolette, MD

Gloria Marroquin, MD                   

James Merryman, DO           

Shannon M. Mitchel, MD                    

Sharon Moore, MD

Stephen J. Pont, MD, MPH

Robina Poonawalla, MD

Anuradha Prabhu, MD

Ghassan F. Salman, MD

David Vander Straten, MD                                                        

Christopher M. Ziebell, MD  

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Public Relations Committee

The Public Relations Committee is responsible for supervising or promoting activities which shall result in a proper evaluation by the public of the services of the medical profession, as well as a proper evaluation by the medical profession of its obligation to the public.

Parviz K. Kavoussi, MD - Chair (512) 444-1414

Vineet Choudhry, MD

Karen Cohen, MD

David Kessler, MD

Daniel Leeman, MD

Anand Patel, MD
Stephanie Roth, MD

Xuan Kim Tran, MD
Adam Weinfeld, MD

Consultants

John Austin, MD

Ed Buster, MD

Harinder Dhir, MD

Georgeanne Freeman, DO

Pradeep Kumar, MD

Vic Mahendru, MD
Jerald A. Mankovsky, MD

Juan M. Nieto, MD

Rita E. Schindeler-Trachta, DO

Catherine L. Scholl, MD
Charlotte Smith, MD
Allen Sonstein, MD

John Villacis, MD

David Wishnew, MD
Ester Yaniv, MD

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