UTHSCT President Joins Graduate Medical Education Council

TYLER — The president of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Kirk A. Calhoun, M.D., has been named to the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) of the Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Calhoun, president of UTHSCT since 2002, is one of 17 members of COGME, which was established by Congress in 1986 to evaluate the supply and distribution of physicians in the United States. His term expires March 31, 2016. He is a former chair of the executive committee of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. Dr. Calhoun also has served on the State Health Services Council and the Teaching Hospitals of Texas’ executive committee.

In addition, Anna Kurdowska, Ph.D., has been appointed director of research at UTHSCT, and Robert Tompkins, MD, has been named program director of the Family Medicine Residency. As director of research, Dr. Kurdowska will oversee the Biomedical Research Center, its 28 faculty, and associated lab and clerical staff. She joined UTHSCT in 1991 and currently is a professor of biochemistry.

Dr. Tompkins will supervise the family medicine residency program, which began in 1985. The program gives new physicians the training and experience needed to treat people in all stages of life, from infancy to old age. He is an associate professor of medicine and has been an instructor in the Family Medicine Residency Program since 1997.