Goertz and Mabry elected to AAFP positions

Two Texas voices will speak up for the interests of family physicians within the American Academy of Family Physicians. On Sept. 28, at AAFP’s Scientific Assembly in Washington, D.C., Roland A Goertz, M.D., of Waco, and Leah Raye Mabry, M.D., of San Antonio, were both elected to national offices. Goertz will serve a 3-year term on the board of directors and Mabry will serve her second term as vice speaker for the Congress of Delegates.

Goertz and Mabry have both practiced family medicine for more than 20 years and have also both served at TAFP presidents, Goertz in 1995 and Mabry in 1998.

During his medical career, Goertz has been a family medicine residency program director at two Texas residencies, chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, chief executive officer of the three foundations that oversee operations of the Waco Family Practice Center and associate clinical professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.

Goertz has been a member of TAFP and AAFP since 1979 and has served on numerous state and national committees and commissions. He was awarded a medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed a family medicine residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. Goertz also completed a clinical teaching fellowship in family medicine and received a master’s degree in business administration from Baylor University. AAFP recently gave Goertz the 2006 AAFP Robert Graham Physician Executive award for his “contributions in health care organizations, acknowledged work in the provision of high-quality health care, and commitment to fostering the tenets of family medicine and improving the health of a community.”

Mabry is currently the associate director of the CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Practice Residency Program, San Antonio and is a clinical professor with the University Health Science Center, Department of Family Practice, San Antonio. During Mabry’s medical career, she has been a private practice physician in the Pleasanton Family Practice Clinic in Pleasanton, Texas, the medical director of the Retama Manor Nursing home and director of the special nursing unit at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital. Mabry started working with AAFP in 1994 and has since served on several committees and commissions. She is also involved with the American Medical Association and the Texas Medical Association. Mabry was awarded her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and went on to complete a family medicine residency at Medical Center Hospital in San Antonio.

TAFP congratulates both Dr. Goertz and Dr. Mabry for all of their accomplishments.