AAFP Public Health Award goes to TAFP member

TAFP member and commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., has won the AAFP Public Health Award. He accepted the award at this September’s AAFP Scientific Assembly in San Francisco, Calif.

Established in 1992, the award is intended to recognize extraordinary individuals who have made outstanding contributions to improving the health of individuals and entire populations alike.

Throughout his career, Sanchez has worked to develop and promote an integrated concept of public health and behavioral health care. He has focused on the critical roles disease prevention and healthy life choices play in improving the overall health of any population. In his position as Texas’ top health official, Sanchez promotes the idea that public health and medical care work hand in hand to address the health care challenges the nation faces. He has targeted obesity as one of the most threatening of these challenges and he frequently delivers a message of healthy eating and increased physical activity as a remedy to national and state audiences.

Sanchez is also a member of the U.S./Mexico Border Health Commission, where he developed integrated public health preparedness and response systems to address such issues as bioterrorism, natural epidemics and improved public health-related infrastructure. TAFP nominated Sanchez for the national award after he won the TAFP Public Health Award last year.

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Corboy honored by peers for contributions to family medicine

Jane E. Corboy, M.D., director of the Baylor College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency program in Houston, was honored with a Bronze level Program Director Recognition Award. She is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of Kansas in Kansas City, Kan.

The recognition award was given by the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors during their annual workshop in Kansas City, Mo., June 6, 2005. This is the first year for the awards, given in recognition of contributions to family medicine. They are earned by program directors through accomplishments in the area of tenure, training, performance and advocacy.

The bronze level is given to physicians who have held the position of program director for more than three years and who have presented workshops or authored publications, encouraged professional development in their peers and corresponded with legislators regarding family medicine priorities.

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TAFP Past President dies at 84

TAFP Past President John Calloway Hundley, M.D., of Odessa died this past August at the age of 84. A shining example of what has been called “the greatest generation,” Hundley lived an extraordinary life. As the United States entered World War II, Hundley enlisted in the Navy where he trained to become a fighter pilot. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and became one of the country’s elite “Flying Aces” in the Pacific Theater. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Gold Stars and the Air Medal with five Gold Stars.

After the war, he completed his undergraduate degree and was admitted to LSU Medical School, where he graduated with honors. He completed an internship at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, moved to Bastrop, La., and opened a family medicine and surgery clinic.

In 1955, he moved to Fort Stockton, Texas, where he practiced family medicine and surgery for the next 28 years. Hundley moved to Odessa in 1983, accepting a position as associate professor of family medicine at Texas Tech Health Science Center. He practiced medicine in Odessa until his retirement.

During his medical career, Hundley was very active in the Texas Medical Association and the TAFP, serving a term as TAFP President in 1969-70.

He is survived by his wife, Peggy, their four children and all of their families.

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TAFP loses longtime leader

Arnold N. Krause, M.D. passed away Aug. 12, 2005, in North Richland Hills, Texas. An AAFP member since 1959, Krause became an active member of TAFP in 1993 and a life member in 1999. Born in Nebraska, Krause earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force after medical school and then began practice in Oregon. He moved to Wyoming after a year and practiced there from 1958 to 1993. In 1982 he began teaching, first at the Family Practice Residency Program in Casper, Wyoming and then he became the director of the residency program in Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1993, Krause moved to Texas to join the faculty at the John Peter Smith Family Medicine Residency Program. He retired in 2000, and was honored with TAFP’s Physician Emeritus Award in 2001.

Krause was president of the Wyoming Academy of Family Physicians from 1978 to 1982 and served as their delegate or alternate delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates for many years. He was also involved with the Wyoming Medical Society, serving as president in 1985. After moving to Texas he quickly became involved with TAFP serving on the Bylaws Committee, which he chaired 1996-98, and the Commission on Annual Session and CME, which he chaired 2000-02. He also served on the Executive Committee in 1998-99 and helped with the campaigns of Dr. James Martin and Dr. Leah Raye Mabry for their national positions with AAFP. He was also a member of the TAFP Foundation Board of Trustees for many years. On the local level, Krause was president of the Tarrant County Chapter of TAFP in 1998 and served as one of their representatives to the TAFP Board of Directors from 1998-2005.

He is survived by his wife Karin and their children and grandchildren.