TEXAS CHAPTERAWARDS

2014

Recognizing outstanding achievements in Internal Medicine.

“We are here to add what we can to, not to get what

we can from life.” — Sir William Osler

ANDY DIEHLON BEING A DOCTOR AWARD

The On Being a Doctor Essay Competition is named in honor ofDr. Andy Diehl, former Governor of the Texas Chapter, inrecognition of his contributions to the Texas Chapter as a leader,educator and internist. Dr. Diehl was an avid reader of medicalliterature and was lauded by colleagues as a dedicated teacher andphysician. He served 35 years on the faculty at the University ofTexas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

The competition received twelve entries from medical studentsand seven from Resident members. Kelsey Bryant, a student fromUTHSCSA, was chosen to present her composition on the theme,“Who’s my patient? Living in a world of increasingly fragmentedcare, increased handoffs, and sub specialization.” The title of herwinning essay is “My Patient.” Kelsey’s essay will appear on thechapter web site after the annual meeting.

It is with genuine pleasure that this year, the Texas Chapterpresents the 2014 Andy Diehl On Being a Doctor Award to KelseyBryant.

Eugene Stokes, MD, FACP Suma Pokala, MD, FACPKaren Szauter, MD, FACP Chair, Residents Committee Co-Chairs, TXACP Medical Students Committee

Roger S. Khetan, MD, FACP, FHM President, TXACP

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the

blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” — Napoleon Hill

KELSEY BRYANT, MD

As a first-generation Texan, Kelsey has made her way through several major Texas cities. After growing up outside of Houston, she spent four years earning a degree in Nutritional Sciences from UT Austin, and finally made it south to San Antonio to enter the M.D/M.P.H program at The University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio. Between degrees, she was lucky enough to have several experiences traveling abroad in both Europe and Southeast Asia.

Currently in her final year of medical school, Kelsey is applying for residency in Internal Medicine. Though she has ideas regarding the pursuit of a fellowship, she has no definite plans as of yet. As a medical student, she has been involved with The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics as a member of the Student Advisory Council, as a student leader for an annual Ethiopia Outreach project, as a mentor for UTSOMSA's Veritas program, as well as several teaching endeavors.

When she is not cramming facts into her head or learning how to apply them in a clinical setting, you might find her training for a marathon or half-marathon, going for a swim, trying a new recipe, or plotting some sort of international adventure that likely involves scuba diving. As for what the future holds, ask her after Match Day!

EARLY CAREER PHYSICIANLEADER OF THE YEAR AWARD

The Texas Chapter of the ACP honors an active ACP member thatdemonstrates leadership in community services that has been inpractice for at least ten years. The Early Career Physician Leader ofthe Year Award is the most prestigious recognition of achievementfor young physicians.

It is with distinct pleasure that the Texas Chapter honors AaronSamsula, MD, FACP with the Texas Chapter Award for EarlyCareer Physician Leader of the Year. Recipients of this award arerecognized for their outstanding achievement in the areas ofacademics, leaderships, and/or advocacy for the field of internalmedicine.

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.

This is how character is built.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

AARON SAMSULA, MD, FACP

Dr. Aaron Samsula was born in Nebraska and graduated cum laude from the University of Texas at Dallas with a BS in Biology and completed his doctoral of medicine degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He finished residency in Internal Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center where he served as Chief Resident of Internal Medicine Resident’s Clinic from 2004-2005. Currently, Dr. Samsula has practices medicine in Plano, Texas and specializes in Internal Medicine. As a longstanding member of the ACP, Dr. Samsula participated in clinical vignette competitions as both a medical student and resident. He participated in the General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship program as a student and has welcomed students to his office since 2006 serving as a volunteer preceptor engaging the next generations of Internists. He has served as Co-Chair for Texas Northern for the Council of Early Career Physicians for four years and helped to lead this new committee to successful events for young physicians. He has served on the Medical Students Committee since 2008 and participated in the annual meeting for many years. In 2012, he was awarded Fellowship in the College. During his young career, Dr. Samsula has earned numerous accolades in recognition of his achievements and contributions to his field including being named to D Magazine’s Best Doctors in Dallas and Best Doctors in Collin County (2012-2014) as well as being named a Texas Monthly Rising Star (2012-2014). Dr. Samsula is affiliated with The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano and Baylor Regional Medical Center At Plano. He has been a member of numerous professional organizations and named to several committees since 2006. His colleagues have shared that Dr. Samsula “embodies the spirit with which this award was created and has served as a physician leader and strong advocate for Internal Medicine.” In recognition of his achievements in leadership, medical education and commitment to strengthening the practice of Internal Medicine for his patientsand community, the Texas Chapter is pleased to bestow the Early Career Physician Leader of the Year Award on Aaron Samsula, MD, FACP.

“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”

— Norman Cousins

2014 TXACP CHAPTER VOLUNTEERISM AND COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDThe Volunteerism and Community Service Award honorsmembers of the Texas Chapter who have distinguished themselves involuntary service in the area of medicine.

Awardees must be Masters, Fellows, or Members of the College. Selfnominations are not permitted. The service must have been performedon a voluntary basis and not required for the completion of teaching,training, or position requirements. Volunteer work must have beendone as a physician and be medically related.

Award recipients will be eligible for nomination for the Oscar E.Edwards Memorial Award for Volunteerism and Community Servicepresented by ACP each year at the College’s Annual Session.It is with distinct pleasure this year that the Texas Chapter honorsSalim Surani, MD, MPH, MSHM, FACP, with the Texas ChapterAward for Volunteerism and Community Service. Recipients of thisaward have distinguished themselves as true humanitarians to behonored for their voluntary contributions in medicine.

Dr. Surani, we salute you as a compassionate and honorablephysician and wish you continued success with your future voluntaryendeavors improving the health of humankind.

Robert E. Jackson, MD, FACP Sue S. Bornstein, MD, FACPGovernor, Texas Southern Chapter Governor, Texas Northern Chapter

SALIM SURANI, MD, MPH, MSHM, FACP

Dr. Surani trained and practiced in some of the finest institution in the country as Yale and Baylor. Besides his degree in Medicine and certification in Internal Medicine, Sleep and Pulmonary Medicine he also has Masters Degree in Public Health as well as Health administration.

He is universally respected for his superior clinical competence, and academicaccomplishments. He is a prolific author and investigator with countless publicationsto his credit. He also serves in the leadership for The CHEST Foundation.He is known as true humanitarian among his colleague. He has done volunteer workin several countries to help the people in need, besides serving the indigent people ofCoastal Bend. He has spent innumerable hours in educating the children of theCoastal bend area regarding hazard of smoking and also teaching them about healthysleep behavior. He also has the unique honor of being the founder of “It’s Your LifeFoundation” with the mission to educate and they have reached more than 50,000elementary school children over the past six years.

He also pioneered the program “iConquer” in collaboration with high school childrento combat childhood Diabetes and Obesity. CHEST Foundation, TMA Foundation,Mayor Fitness Council, Corpus Christi School District, Coastal Bend DiabeticCoalition, Texas A&M College of Nursing as well as several local Foundations haveendorsed this program.

He developed high caliber hip-hop song to educate the middle and high schoolchildren passing the education message in a subliminal way: Addicted (addressinglife cycle of smokers); Torn (addressing substance abuse); iConquer (addressingchildhood obesity and diabetes); Blame (addressing sleep deprivation). In additionhe has produced several health education movies receiving 5 major movie awards.Details can be found at www.itsyourlifefoundation.org.

The Texas Chapter of the ACP is proud to recognize Salim Surani, MD, MPH,MSHM, FACP with the 2014 TXACP Chapter Volunteerism and Community Service Award.

TXACP Services 2014 Snyder/Chumley Advocate of the Year AwardTXACP Services, the advocacy arm of the Texas Chapter of theACP, is pleased to present the 2014 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 aregistered Advocate for Internal Medicine (AIMn) who hasdemonstrated outstanding leadership in the areas of legislativeadvocacy and grassroots activism. The Advocate of the Year hasconsistently communicated concerns on behalf of TXACP Servicesto elected officials on issues and unfailingly responded tolegislative alerts, as well as served as a community spokespersonon behalf of internal medicine and patients. In addition, thisperson has expanded the Chapter’s advocacy program, recruitednew AIMn members, and actively participated in Leadership Dayvisits and/or other meetings with legislators and staff.

It is with distinct pleasure that we present the 2014 Snyder/Chumley Advocate of the Year Award to Felicia Jordan, MD,FACP, for her leadership in political, legislative, and grassrootsadvocacy on behalf of medicine, and most importantly, thepatients of Texas.

LeChauncy Woodard, MD, FACP President, TXACP Services

FELICIA JORDAN, MD, FACP

Dr. Jordan received her medical degree at the University of Miami Medical School. She completed her training in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Jordan has been active in the Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians and served as President of the Chapter as well as President of the Texas ACP Services, the chapter’s advocacy arm.

Dr. Jordan has attended Leadership Day in Washington, D.C. on a regular basis since2009. She has always represented the needs of our patients in Texas during hermultiple visits to DC and Austin. Dr. Jordan served on the Board of Directors of theTexas ACP from 2007-2012 and currently is the Chair of the Health and Public PolicyCommittee. Dr. Jordan has distinguished herself with the Texas Medical Associationand has served on the TMA Political Action Committee Board of Directors since 2009and is currently a member of TMA’s Council of Socioeconomics.

Dr. Jordan is the epitome of excellence in leadership and advocacy. Most recently, shehas been awarded the ACP’s Lead Certificate and the Trailblazer Award of the IvyEducational and Charitable Foundation of Houston.

Today, she become the first woman to receive the Texas Chapter Advocate of the YearAward for her outstanding leadership. Dr. Jordan lives in Houston, Texas where shepractices medicine with the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. She served as the Chair of theDiabetes Committee for Kelsey-Seybold and as the Medical Liaison Director forMemorial Hermann Hospital System. She is married to Perry Jordan and is active inthe Deacon Spouses’ Ministry of the Brentwood Baptist Church.

TXACPS is proud to recognize Felicia Jordan, MD, FACP with the TXACP ServicesChumley/Synder Advocate of the Year award.

“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”

— Sir William Osler

Laureate awardThe Laureate Award honors those Fellows and Masters of theCollege who have demonstrated by their example and conduct anabiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education, orresearch and in service to their community, their Chapter, and the American College of Physicians.

The recipient of this award shall bear the title Laureate of theTexas Chapter.

These awards shall be presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting. The awardees should accept the recognition in person, unless excused by the Governor. The awardees are to be nominated by a process that may originate from the Awards Committee or from any member of the Chapter. The nomination must document the attributes and accomplishments of the nominee.

The awardees shall be senior physicians and Fellows or Masters of long-standing, with acknowledged excellence and peer approval in the field of internal medicine. In addition, the awardees should have served their Chapter with distinction. Exceptional circumstances may modify these requirements.

It is with distinct pleasure that this year, the Texas Chapterpresents the Laureate Award to, Eugene Boisaubin, MD,FACP; Robert Fine, MD, FACP; Karen Szauter, MD,FACP; and Steve Urban, MD, FACP. These physicians arelong-standing and loyal supporters of the College, have rendereddistinguished service to the Chapter and have upheld the highideals and professional standards for which the College is known.

We salute and honor these Laureate Awardees on this occasion,and we wish them and their families well in the future.

Robert E. Jackson, MD, FACP Sue S. Bornstein, MD, FACPGovernor, Texas Southern Chapter Governor, Texas Northern Chapter

EUGENE V. BOISAUBIN, MD, FACP

Dr. Eugene Boisaubin is a Professor of Medicine at TheUniversity of Texas Medical School at Houston and co-director of the second-year Medical School course, Ethics andProfessionalism in Medicine at the McGovern Center forHumanities and Ethics. He also serves as the Director of theEthics and Advisory Core for the NIH Center for Clinical andTranslational Sciences at UTHealth.

Dr. Boisaubin was awarded the school's first Distinguished Teaching Professorshipand was recently named to the State of Texas Governing Board for the PhysicianHealth Program. An academic internist, he has been a clinical medical ethicist andethics consultant at three medical universities for over 25 years.

Dr. Boisaubin earned an A.B. in Zoology and Art History from WashingtonUniversity, and his M.D. from the University of Missouri Medical School. Hecompleted his professional training at Baylor College of Medicine and at theKennedy Institute, Georgetown University. Before joining UTHealth, he was afaculty member at Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas MedicalBranch at Galveston.

The Texas Chapter of ACP is pleased to bestow its Laureate Award for 2014, onEugene Boisaubin, MD, FACP.

“My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art,

but also a calling, also a ministry.” — Abraham Verghese

ROBERT L. FINE, MD, FACP

Dr. Fine has completed board certification in internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative medicine. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the American College of Physicians, a former member of the AAHPM Ethics Committee, and a member of the National Quality Forum Committee on Palliative and End of Life Care.

He established the clinical ethics consultation service at Baylor University MedicalCenter (BUMC) in 1985 and served as a physician leader on the development of theTexas Advance Directives Act, writing the current Texas Living Will and helpingdevelop the first legislatively approved extra-judicial dispute resolution mechanismfor medical ethics conflicts in America.

In 2004, he led a team establishing the BUMC Palliative Care Consultation Service.Now known as the Supportive and Palliative Care Service, the team was recognized for excellence by the American Hospital Association with a Circle of Life Citation ofHonor in 200 and in 2012, became the first palliative care team in Texas and one of the first ten in the country to be certified by the Joint Commission. Dr. Fine lectures and publishes widely on issues related to clinical ethics and palliative medicine.

In recognition of his accomplishments in a career in medicine and his leadership inthe specialty of Internal Medicine, the Texas Chapter of ACP is pleased to bestow itsLaureate Award for 2014, on Robert Fine, MD, FACP.

“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”

— Sir William Osler

KAREN E. SZAUTER, MD, FACP

Dr. Szauter is an integral and involved member of TXACP, and is currently on faculty at UTMB. She joined the UTMB faculty in 1990 after completing training in internal medicine, gastroenterology and nutrition. Her academic career has focused on medical education. She serves as the medical director of the standardized patient program and is actively involved in the development of teaching and assessment activities involving human simulation.

She is also involved in faculty development through the Scholars in Education program. She has held leadership positions through the Group on Educational Affairs (AAMC) and continues to actively support efforts for educational scholarship through service to the Grants and Research Committee of the Association of Standardized Patient Educators and the Research Committee of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine.

With TXACP, Dr. Szauter is the Co-Chair of the Medical Students Committee along with her colleague Dr. Gene Stokes. Dr. Szauter curates the medical students’ abstract competition each year at the annual meeting, a competition that is this year hosting 35 student posters and 6 oral vignette presentations.

Dr. Szauter is also a champion of the General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program (GIMSPP), a summer mentorship program provided by TXACP for first and second year medical students to receive hands-on experiences with mentors in internal medicine. Her paper titled “The General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program: Over 20 years of Early Student Exposure to the Practice of Internal Medicine” is in the publication process and illustrates the success of the program over its 20-year history.

The Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians is proud to honor Karen Szauter, MD, FACP, as a Laureate for 2014.

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient

who has the disease.” — Sir William Osler

ROBERT (STEVE) URBAN, MD, FACP

Steve Urban was raised on a wheat farm near Perryton Texas,an experience that taught him in so many ways that he’d betterfind another occupation. He attended undergraduate school atTCU, where he was a junior phi bete and graduated with a B.A.in English. Miraculously, he was accepted at Baylor College ofMedicine, joining AOA as a junior and graduating magna cumlaude. He completed his internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern, serving as chief resident under Dr. Donald Seldin and Dr. James Knochel in 1981.

Dr. Urban then returned to the Panhandle to practice internal medicine with a groupwhich included Texas ACP laureate Dr. Ted Nicklaus and former Texas ACPpresidents Dr. Rush Pierce and Dr. Sheryl Williams. Early on, he joined the internalmedicine faculty at the Texas Tech School of Medicine regional campus in Amarillo;he has conducted Friday morning report there for the past 33 years. For 19 years helived the life of a busy private practitioner of general internal medicine, admitting hissick patients to the hospital, seeing patients in the clinic morning and afternoon, andcalling patients and dictating charts late into the night after the kids were in bed. Hehelped correct the grammar and comma usage of hundreds of transcriptionists overthe years. He actually read his consultants notes until the EMR rendered themmeaningless; his greatest triumph was discovering the word “cystoscopy” spelled with a $ in place of the “s” in a urologist’s note. This error did not go unpunished.

In 2000, Dr. Urban joined the full-time faculty of the internal medicine departmentat Texas Tech (Amarillo), where he is now professor of internal medicine and holderof an endowed chair established by his patients. He has been both clerkship directorfor the medical students and program director for the residency (not at the sametime). He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Dean’steaching award (an Amarillo award), the President’s teaching award (TTUSOM-wide)and the Chancellor’s teaching award (Texas Tech-wide). The IM residents andmedical students in Amarillo have chosen him as their outstanding faculty memberon numerous occasions.

Dr. Urban served on the board of directors for the Texas Chapter of the ACP for 5years and was the President of our organization in 2009-10. He continues to serve onthe Texas ACP foundation board. Dr. Urban is married to Joan, whom he met atTCU in a class on Pre-Socratic and Classical Greek philosophy. She was by far thebest thing to come out of THAT class. Steve and Joan have 3 children: David (acomputer programmer in Manhattan), Elizabeth (a professor of early Islamic historyin Philadelphia), and Catherine (a librarian in Amarillo). His interests includeliterature and medical humanities, history (the more obscure the better) andlanguages; if you want to know about Altaic linguistic group or the decipherment ofEgyptian hieroglyphs, he’s your man. Dr. Urban has been afflicted with anenthusiasm for the Houston Astros since 1962 (they weren’t the Astros then); hisenthusiasm peaked in 2005 but flickers on despite every effort by the Astrosmanagement to snuff it out. The Texas Chapter of ACP is pleased to bestow itsLaureate Award for 2014, on Steve Urban, MD, FACP.

1985 Don W. Chapman, MACP1985 Ralph Tompsett, MACP1986 Ben A. Merrick, MD, FACP1986 Julian C. Barton, MD, FACP1987 None awarded1988 Warren Woodman Moorman, FACP1988 James E. Kreisle, Sr., FACP1989 Tom Giddings, MD, FACP1989 Paul Thomas, MD, FACP1990 Robert D. Bone, FACP1990 Edwin M. Ory, FACP1991 Jabez Galt, FACP1991 O. Roger Hollan, FACP1992 Homer Goehrs, FACP1992 William O. Tschumy, FACP1993 William Rugeley Livesay, FACP1993 Billy B Oliver, FACP1994 David C Miesch, FACP1994 Ted M Nicklaus, FACP1994 Lawrence Rodney Rodgers, FACP1994 H Irving Schweppe, JR, FACP1995 Albert D. Roberts, MD, MACP1995 William C. Levin, MD, FACP1996 James C. Guckian, MD, MACP1996 Elmer R. Hayes, MD, FACP1996 Neil A. Kurtzman, MD, FACP1996 Charles B. Mullins, MD, FACP1997 William P. Deiss, Jr., MD, FACP1997 William A. Godfrey, Jr., MD, FACP1998 Kermit B. Knudsen, MD, FACP1998 Marvin Forland, MD, MACP1999 Jerry C. Daniels, MD, FACP1999 Robert J. Hall, MD, FACP1999 John S. Fordtran, MD, MACP1999 Lloyd W. Kitchens, Jr., MD, MACP2000 Stanton P. Fischer, MD, FACP2000 August Ray Remmers, Jr., MD, FACP2000 Marvin J. Stone, MD, MACP2001 Edward C. Lynch, MD, MACP2001 Walter P. Dyck, MD, FACP

2001 Raymond Frederick Gregory, MD, FACP2001 Carey G. King, Jr., MD, FACP2002 Joseph C. Dougherty, MD, FACP2002 Albert F. Hendler, MD, FACP2003 Carlos R. Hamilton, Jr., MD, FACP2003 Jack A. Barnett, MD, FACP2003 Isabel V. Hoverman, MD, MACP2004 Major W. Bradshaw, MD, FACP2004 Robert C. Kimbrough III, MD, FACP2004 Lynne M. Kirk, MD, FACP2004 J. Marc Shabot, MD, FACP2005 Kenneth Nugent, MD, FACP2005 Rody P. Cox, MD, FACP2005 Temple W. Williams, Jr., MD, FACP2006 Jack B. Alperin, MD, FACP2006 Andrew K. Diehl, MD, FACP2006 Ned Snyder III, MD, FACP2006 F. David Winter, Jr., MD, FACP2007 Delbert L. Chumley, MD, FACP2007 Edith Irby Jones, MD, FACP2007 Joseph Viroslav, MD, FACP2008 Spencer R. Berthelsen, MD, FACP2008 Dorothy D. Sherwood, MD, FACP2008 Herbert L. DuPont, MD, FACP 2009 Don W. Powell, MD, MACP2009 Eugene W. Stokes, MD, FACP2010 W. Mark Aramstrong, MD, MACP2010 George E. Crawford, MD, MACP2011 Harry ‘Pete’ E. Davis II, MD, FACP2011 John C. McKechnie, MD, FACP2011 Randall L. Rosenblatt, MD, FACP2011 William ‘Bill’ Winters Jr., MD, FACP2012 Michael Emmett, MD, MACP2012 Mark Feldman, MD, MACP2012 Herbert L. Fred, MD, MACP 2013 Philip Bentlif, MD, FACP2013 Stephen Greenberg, MD, FACP2013 Antonio Gotto, Jr., MD, DPHIL2013 Kenneth I. Shine, MD, MACP

Past texas Laureate award winners

2000 Edith Irby Jones, MD, FACP2002 Joslyn B. (Weiner) Fisher, MD2002 Frederick M. Zaunbrecher, MD, FACP2005 Ted Nicklaus, MD, FACP2006 Richard A. Jackson, MD, FACP2006 Rafael A. Rodriguez, MD2008 Thomas S. McHorse, MD2008 Fred C. Campbell, Jr., MD, FACP 2009 Mohamed M. Haq, MD, FACP2011 Ruth Berggren, MD2012 Darla Lowe, MD2013 James A. Wagner, MD, Msc, FACP

2005 Delbert L. Chumley, MD, FACP2005 Ned Snyder III, MD, FACP2006 Carlos R. Hamilton, Jr., MD, FACP2007 Spencer R. Berthelsen, MD, FACP2008 William J. Deaton, MD2009 F. David Winter, MD, FACP2010 Howard R. Marcus, MD, FACP2011 Scott W. Yates, MD, MBA, MS2012 Eugene Stokes, MD, FACP

2012 Victor Simms, MD, MPH, FACP2013 Pete Yunyongying, MD, FACP

Past VoLunteerism and Community serViCe awards

Past txaCP ServiceS adVoCate of the year award

earLy Career PhysiCianLeader of the year award