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Williams elected TMA presidentBy Mary Madewell
The Paris NewsPublished May 4, 2008
The Texas Medical Association (TMA) elected Josie R. Williams, MD, of Paris as its 143rd president Saturday in San Antonio at TexMed 2008, the association’s annual meeting in San Antonio.
A gastroenterologist and internal medicine specialist, Williams said she retired in July 2008 but then “went back to work part-time.” She is an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine at College Station.
“I am in Paris three or four times a month,” Williams, who has a ranch here, said. “My kids live on the ranch and I consider it home.”
Williams, the daughter of the late Evelyn and Brooks Williams grew up in the area and practiced here several years.
Williams has served as a member of TMA’s Board of Trustees since 2001, on the association’s Council on Legislation and Council on Socioeconomics, and in several other capacities. She also has been active as a TMA delegate to the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates.
As president, Williams said she seeks to strengthen physicians’ role as leaders in health care.
“Health care is almost in a state of crisis because of exploding costs and decreasing pay for health care providers,” Williams said. “We are beginning to worry about the supply of primary health physicians to care to an increasingly older population.
“I want us to being the journey to re-evaluate how we deliver health care and cut out waste that may be there, but at the same time restore the physician/patient relationship in hopes of taking things back to become patient centered.”
Williams said the task is awesome “and will not be completed on my watch.”
“The journey will take several years, but I want us to learn from other industries as we evaluate the health care system,” Williams said. “That is the journey I want to begin.”
The former Paris physician has served in private practice, as a hospital administrator, a military nurse, a nursing administrator, and an assistant professor, among other professional roles.
She also has served in the forefront of numerous other professional medical groups, notably those involved in patient safety issues.
“If we’re good scientists, as we should be, and if we truly are about caring for patients, then we don’t just want to know what to do,” she explained. “Instead we want to know what’s the safest, evidence-based quality of care that will produce the best, patient-centered care, the most effective way.”
Williams wanted to work in medicine since she was a child. She earned her medical degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and her nursing degree at Sparks Memorial Hospital School of Nursing at Fort Smith, Ark. She completed her undergraduate studies at Texas A&M University.
In addition to her university staff position, Williams serves as director of the Rural and Community Health Institute at the Texas A&M Health Science Center.
“Our state faces many health care challenges, from the high number of uninsured people to overall wellness concerns,” Williams. said. “TMA has to continue its leadership role in helping tackle those problems, to improve the health of all Texans.”
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