WHAT:  Physician leaders, legislators and top health care policy experts will gather in Austin to discuss the Texas Medical Association’s (TMA’s) vision and develop strategies to keep Texans physically and fiscally healthy in the years to come. The broad TMA Winter Conference agenda includes state and national updates. Texas’ population, already beset by expensive acute and chronic diseases, is expected to boom from 25 million to almost 45 million by 2040, adding to the state’s health care woes. TMA’s Healthy Vision 2020 outlines the association’s initiatives to meet these health care challenges and care for patients in a time of change. One noteworthy panel discussion examines the future of Medicaid in Texas.

WHO: TMA President-elect Stephen Brotherton, MD; American Medical Association (AMA) President Jeremy Lazarus, MD; former state demographer Steve Murdock, PhD; Sen. Bob Deuell, MD, (R-Greenville); Rep. John Zerwas, MD (R-Richmond); Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner Kyle Janek, MD; and other top TMA physician leaders from across Texas.

WHEN: SATURDAY, Feb. 2 from 8:45 am – 12 pm  (details below) 

WHERE: AT&T Conference Center, Level 3, Grand Ballroom, 1900 University Ave., Austin

TMA WINTER CONFERENCE • SCHEDULE OF EVENTS  

TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation, representing more than 47,000 physician and medical student members. It is located in Austin and has 120 component county medical societies 6around the state. TMA's key objective since 1853 is to improve the health of all Texans.

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