De La Garza-Grahm Named to Committee
Posted/updated on: February 19, 2011 at 5:50 am
AUSTIN — Governor Rick Perry has appointed Margarita de la Garza-Grahm of Tyler to the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee for a term to expire February 1, 2017. The committee develops a managed healthcare plan for Texas prison inmates. The appointment is subject to senate confirmation.
De la Garza-Graham is a general surgeon in private practice and former chief of surgery at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler. She is a member of the Texas Medical Association and Smith County Medical Society, a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery, and chair of the Diocean Catholic Committee on Scouting. She is also a past member of the American College of Surgeons, American Medical Women Association, Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Stephen F. Austin State University Board of Regents.
De la Garza-Grahm received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in Columbia, MO, and a medical degree from the University of Autonoma de Guerrero in Acapulco, Mexico. She completed her Surgical Residency at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
