The Lone Star Caucus and McLennan County Medical Society (MCMS) are proud to endorse Waco otolaryngologist Bradford W. Holland, MD, for election as speaker of the Texas Medical Association’s (TMA’s) House of Delegates.
Dr. Holland’s first TMA meeting was 28 years ago, and ever since he has been a leader among leaders. In his two years as vice speaker, he has shown he can be transformative in modernizing the house. He has been active in formulating House Standing Rules and adjusting to making the House of Delegates a “virtual organization” for the time-being.
Dr. Holland is an inaugural-year graduate of TMA’s Leadership College and has held multiple positions within TMA and MCMS, including past president of MCMS and six years of service on TMA’s Committee on Professional Liability. Dr. Holland served as chair of the Membership Committee, Candidate Evaluation Committee, the Executive Committee of TEXPAC, and ultimately as TEXPAC chair. He served on the Council on Legislation and in 2014 helped form the Lone Star Caucus, serving as its founding co-chair.
Outside TMA, Dr. Holland is a member of the American Institute of Parliamentarians and is active in his specialty society, having served in many roles, including president of the Texas Association of Otolaryngology. He is a graduate of Leadership Waco, past member of the Board of Directors of the Central Texas American Cancer Society and the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce, and past president of the Waco Symphony Association. Dr. Holland is an adjunct faculty member in Baylor University’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. His wife, Amanda, is director of Baylor University’s Department of Advising for the Robbins College, and they have four children.
Personal Statement: “Who could’ve foreseen the tremendous changes COVID-19 has wrought in the way TMA conducts the House of Delegates? Creating online platforms, online voting, virtual candidate forums, and a virtual house meeting were all challenges the speakers faced in 2020. I believe we rose to those challenges and made it through this trying year.
“But 2021 will be much better! Now that we’ve had sufficient time to prepare and have some experience with virtual TMA meetings, I am proud to say that the TexMed 2021 meeting will be as much like a traditional meeting as one can imagine. We know we need to make a secure, representative, interactive, and understandable mechanism for house business at all levels to be completed. I am excited that we have made amazing progress, and I believe every delegate to the TMA house will be pleased with the TexMed 2021 experience.
“In my time as vice speaker, I have taken an active role to ensure that the myriad problems facing physicians are being addressed in the business of the house. TMA and the speakers need to do everything we can to procure relevant policy changes such that the reforms we need to protect our profession and our patients are being debated in the House of Delegates. I ask for your vote as speaker to continue to make the TMA house the flagship policymaking body of state medical societies in our country.”
Profile
Name: Bradford W. Holland, MD
Specialty: Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Medical School (with year graduated): UT Southwestern Medical School, 1997
Residency Program: Bowman Gray School of Medicine, general surgery internship Wake Forest University School of Medicine/North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, otolaryngology residency
Board Certifications(s): American Board of Otolaryngology
Primary Residence: Waco
Do you expect to maintain your current employment status and location through your term in office? Yes
Does your current employment situation(s) require you to work outside of Texas? No
Including the past five years, list all other organizations from which you have received payment, reimbursement, or financial consideration for consulting, advisory, or leadership responsibilities exceeding $1,000 per year in excess of actual expenses:
- Waco Real Estate Holdings
- Fishpond Surgery Center General Partnership
- Extraco Banks Community Board Member
- Baylor University Adjunct Faculty, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Have you been convicted of a felony or is your medical license restricted? Please explain. No
What TMA positions have you held?
Current
- Vice Speaker, TMA House of Delegates
- Member, TMA Board of Trustees
- Vice Chair, Speaker’s Advisory Council
Past
- Founder and chair, Lone Star Caucus
- Chair, Small Districts Caucus
- Member, Council on Legislation
- Chair, Candidate Evaluation Committee
- Chair, TEXPAC Membership Committee
- Chair, TEXPAC Executive Committee
- Member, Committee on Professional Liability
- Member, Reference Committee on Science and Public Health
- TMA Leadership College Inaugural Graduate
- President, UT-Southwestern TMA-MSS Chapter
- TMA-MSS Delegation to AMA Leader
Disclosures
- Waco Ear, Nose, and Throat
- Physicians Hearing Center
- Fishpond Surgery Center
- Extraco Banks, Board of Directors
- Baylor University Adjunct Faculty, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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