2017 TMA and TMA Foundation Health Heroes

TMA honored the first Health Heroes at TexMed 2017. These physicians earned the distinction by hosting events for each of TMA’s three outreach programs.

Amanda Green, MD

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Michael McLeod, MD

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Jasmine Sulaiman, MD

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Leilani Valdes, MD

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Last Updated On

June 06, 2019

Texas Medicine

The website for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is blunt: “History shows that severe illness and death rates tend to be higher for racial and ethnic minority populations during public health emergencies than for other populations.” That is certainly happening with COVID-19. Emerging data already show that long-standing social determinants of health are stacked against Blacks and Hispanics in Texas, in some cases prompting a stronger call for value-based care, among other tools, so physicians can better help people of color cope with the health inequities brought on by COVID-19.