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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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