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TEXAS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
 The Texas Public Health Association is a non-profit, state-wide association of public health professionals, organized in 1923 and an affiliate of the American Public Health Association. Our members include professionals from all the disciplines pictured here.
Officers and Others Who Make TPHA THE
Professional Association for Public Health Professionals
 

OFFICERS, EXECUTIVE BOARD and GOVERNING COUNCIL 

Officers

Patricia Diana Brooks, MEd, MS - PresidentTxpha@aol.com  
Adriana Babiak-Vazquez, MPH - President-Elect Txpha@aol.com
 
Bobby Schmidt, MEd, RS-1st VP bschmidt2@austin.rr.com
Kaye Reynolds, MPH, MT (ASCP)-2nd VP reynokay@co.fort-Bend.tx.us
Linda Hook, RN, BSN, MSHP - Immediate Past President  linda.hook@uhs-sa.com

Executive Board

Three Years
vacancy
vacancy
 
Two Years
Linda Kaufman, MSN, RN, CS Txpha@aol.com
James Swan, PhD Txpha@aol.com
 
One Year  
Bob Galvan, DrPH, MS, DAAS rgalvan245@charter.net  
Alexandra Garcia, PhD, RN agarcia@mail.nur.utexas.edu     
Tom Hatfield, MPA, RS   Tom.Hatfield@cor.gov

Executive Director

Terri S. Pali Txpha@aol.com

Governing Council


Three Years
Charla Edwards, MPH, RN
Richard Jimenez, DrPH
Melissa Stanford-Oden,   LMSW-IPR, MPH, CHES
 
Two Years 
Robert L. (Bob) Drummond Txpha@aol.com 
Witold Migala, PhD, MPH Txpha@aol.com 
Gloria McNeil Txpha@aol.com


One Year
Lee Hamilton, JD, MPA, RN Txpha@aol.com
Cynthia Hoobler, DVM, MPH Txpha@aol.com
Linda Kaufman, MSN, RN, CS Txpha@aol.com


Affiliate Representatives
Mike Lester, TAMHO mlester@baytown.org
 

Section Chairs 

Administration & Management
Cathy Troisi, PhD Txpha@aol.com
 
Epidemiology
Aisha Siddiqui, MPH




Public Health Nursing
 

Parliamentarian
Bobby Jones, DVM, MPH, DACVPM   olivo@charter.net


Affiliate Representative to the APHA Governing Council
Catherine Cooksley, DrPH  ccooksle@mdanderson.org
John R. Herbold, DVM, MPH, PhD Txpha@aol.com (alternate)

TPHA Journal 
Catherine Cooksley, DrPH , Editor  ccooksle@mdanderson.org
Terri S. Pali, Managing Editor Txpha@aol.com

TPHA Journal Editorial Board

Kaye Reynolds, MPH-Co-chair reynokay@co.fort-bend.tx.us 
Carol Galeener, PhD-Co-chair cagaleener@yahoo.com
Jean Brender, RN, PhD  jdbrender@srph.tamhsc.edu
Linda Elting, DrPH lelting@mdanderson.org 
Shawn Gibbs, PhD Txpha@aol.com 
Jessica Guillion, PhD Jessica.Gullion@dentoncounty.com

Charissa D. Higginbotham, Typesetting
 
 
 TPHA HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS

1948 V. M. Ehlers*
1949 George W. Cox, MD*
1951 S. W. Bohls, MD*
1952 Hubert Shull, DVM*
1953 J. W. Bass, MD*
1953 Mildred G. Primer*
1954 Earle Sudderth*
1956 Austin E. Hill, MD
1957 J. V. Irons, ScD*
1958 Henry Drumwright
1959 J. G. Daniels, MD*
1960 Ella Patton
1960 B. M. Primer, MD*
1961 C. A. Purcell*
1961 M. Graham Smoot*
1962 Lewis Dodson*
1963 L. P. Walter, MD
1964 Nell Faulkner*
1965 James M. Pickard, MD*
1966 Roy G. Reed, MD*
1967 John T. Warren*
1968 D. R. Reilly, MD*
1969 James E. Peavy, MD*
1970 W. Howard Bryant*
1970 David F. Smallhorst*
1971 Joseph N. Murphy, Jr.*
1972 Lola Bell*
1972 B. G. Loveless*
1973 Barnie A. Young
1974 Ardis Gaither*
1975 Herbert F. Hargis*
1975 Lou M. Hollar*
1976 M. L. McDonald
1977 Ruth McDonald
1978 Maggie Bell Davis*
1978 Albert Randall, MD
1979 Maxine Geeslin, RN
1979 William R. Ross, MD*
1980 Ed L. Redford*
1981 W. V. Bradshaw, MD*
1981 Robert E. Monroe
1982 William T. Ballard*
1982 Kenneth T. Crane*
1983 Mike M. Kelly, RS
1983 Hugh Wright*
1984 Hal J. Dewlett, MD*
1984 C. K. Foster
1985 Edith Ehlers Mazurek
1985 Rodger G. Smyth, MD*
1986 Helen S. Hill*
1986 Henry Williams, RS*
1987 Frances (Jimmie) Scott*
1987 Sue Barfoot, RN
1988 Jo Dimock, RN, BSN, ME
1988 Donald T. Hillman, RS *
1989 Marietta Crowder, MD
1990 Robert Galvan, MS, RS
1991 Wm. F. Jackson, REHS*
1992 Charlie Norris*
1993 T. L. Edmonson, Jr.
1994 David M. Cochran, PE
1995 JoAnn Brewer, MPH, RN *
1995 C. Thomas Grimshaw, PE*
1996 Dan T. Dennison, RS, MT, MBA
1997 Mary McSwain, RN, BSN
1998 Robert L. Drummond
1999 Nina M. Sisley, MD, MPH
2000 Nancy Adair
2001 Dale Dingley, MPH
2002 Stella Flores
2003 Tom Hatfield
2004 Janet Greenwood
2005 Charla Edwards, RN
2006 Janice Coates Hartman, RS
2007 Jennifer Smith, MSHP
2008 Catherine Cooksley, DrPH

*Deceased

TPHA LIFE MEMBERS
Ron Anderson, M.D.
Minnie Bailey, Ph.D.
Ned V. Brookes, P.E.
Oran S. Buckner, Jr., P.E., R.S.
Burl Cockrell, R.S.
Exa Fay Hooten
Robert MacLean, M.D.
Sam Marino
Annie Lue Mitchell
Laurance N. Nickey, M.D.
David R. Smith, M.D.
Kerfoot P. Walker, Jr., MD

Affiliated Societies
Texas Association of Municipal Health Officials (TAMHO)
Texas Society for Public Health Education (TSOPHE)