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MESSAGE FROM THE
DEAN OF MEDICINE & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
TO: Department Chairs
and Administrators, School of
Medicine
Faculty, School
of Medicine
Hospital
Executive Directors and Staff
FROM: Stanley M. Lemon, M.D.
Dean of
Medicine
Karen H.
Sexton, R.N., Ph.D.
Chief Operating
Officer, UTMB
Hospitals and Clinics
SUBJECT: Change in Community-Based
Clinics Leadership
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Barbara L.
Thompson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine,
holder of the Sealy Hutchings and Lucille Wright Hutchings Chair in
Family Medicine, and Assistant Dean, Faculty Practice, will succeed Dr.
Christine Turley, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, who has
indicated her desire to step down as Medical Director, Community Based
Clinics, effective September 1, 2004. We are also pleased to announce
that Dr. Thompson, who has been serving in an interim capacity as
Medical Director of the University Outpatient Clinics, has agreed to
continue these responsibilities on a permanent basis. Dr. Thompson has
provided outstanding medical leadership to University Outpatient Clinics
operations since assuming these duties, and we are very pleased that the
medical directorship of both UTMB’s on-campus and community-based
clinics will now be consolidated.
We wish to acknowledge with gratitude the
leadership provided by Dr. Turley, who has served as Medical Director of
the Community
Based Clinics since October 1, 2001. Her
contributions to the Community Based Clinics have been substantial,
including an in-depth review of the compensation of community based
clinic physicians and implementation of a new compensation structure and
incentive program, as well as the implementation of Open Access. She has
navigated clinic administration through retirements and other
significant changes in provider personnel while maintaining a high level
of patient satisfaction with the services provided. We are grateful to
Dr. Turley for her exceptional service and for her many contributions to
the institution while she served in this role. Dr. Turley will continue
her activities related to teaching, patient care and clinical trials in
the Department of Pediatrics and with the Faculty Group Practice.
Please join us in thanking Dr. Turley for her
service to UTMB as Medical Director of the Community
Based Clinics, and in supporting Dr. Thompson
as she assumes these additional responsibilities.
cc: Senior Associate, Associate and Assistant
Deans, School of Medicine
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