AUSTIN, TX - (May 5, 2009) - Governor Rick Perry has appointed Dr. Pat Crocker, Medical Director of Dell Children's Medical Center's emergency department to the Texas Medical Board.
Dr. Crocker is one of seven new members who will serve on the board until April 13, 2015.
The Texas Medical Board protects and enhances the public's health, safety and welfare by establishing and maintaining standards of excellence used in regulating the practice of medicine and ensuring quality health care for the citizens of Texas.
Dr. Crocker is an Emergency Medicine specialist with Emergency Service Partners, P.A. He is also an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine for the University of Texas Medical Branch, a member of the Seton Family of Hospitals Board of Trustees, Take Heart Austin Steering Committee, and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Crocker is also a member of the Travis County Medical Society and Texas Medical Association, and chair of the Austin/Travis County EMS Quality Assurance Board. He served in the U.S. Army, and received a bachelor's degree and master's degree in nutrition from the University of California at Berkley, and a doctorate of osteopathy from the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery.
Dr. Crocker's appointment is subject to Senate
confirmation.
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