{"id":1210008,"date":"2023-03-14T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1210008"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:55:19","slug":"local-physician-appointed-as-new-smith-county-health-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1210008","title":{"rendered":"Local physician appointed as new Smith County Health Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1210010\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Dr.-Valerie-Smith.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Dr.-Valerie-Smith.webp 162w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Dr.-Valerie-Smith-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Smith County now has a new local health authority. Dr. Valerie B. Smith was appointed by the commissioner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s court on Tuesday and sworn in by County Judge Neal Franklin. She replaces Dr. Paul McGaha after his retirement. Smith is assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine. She has served the children of East Texas for nearly two decades as a pediatrician at St. Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Foundation. Smith got her degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and did her pediatric residency at Arkansas Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hospital in Little Rock. She got her master of public health from the UT Science Center School of Community and Rural Health. She was recommended to the commissioners court by the NET Health Board of Directors. Health Authorities are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153physicians appointed to administer state and local laws relating to public health within an appointing body\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jurisdiction,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Smith County now has a new local health authority. Dr. Valerie B. Smith was appointed by the commissioner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s court on Tuesday and sworn in by County Judge Neal Franklin. She replaces Dr. Paul McGaha after his retirement. Smith is assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas at Tyler School of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1210008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local physician appointed as new Smith County Health Authority<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1210012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Dr.-Valerie-Smith.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Local physician appointed as new Smith County Health Authority","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 14:58:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Dr.-Valerie-Smith.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Local physician appointed as new Smith County Health Authority","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210278,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210008\/revisions\/1210278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}