Name: John Carlo, MD
Specialty: Public Health, General Preventive Medicine
City: Dallas
County Medical Society: Dallas CMS
The Texas Medical Association Board of Trustees elected John T. Carlo, MD, as chair during the TexMed conference in April 2026, after reelecting him to the board in 2025. The Dallas public health and general preventive medicine specialist remains dedicated to the aspirations he held when he initially joined the board in 2022.
“We must continue to protect physician-patient relationships against both government and business intrusion,” said Dr. Carlo. “Every physician should be able to practice medicine at the highest standards, and we continue to work to ensure our patients have access to great health care.”
He played a lead role in helping TMA respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a member of the association’s COVID-19 Task Force. He also helped Dallas address the 2014 Ebola scare. Those examples illustrate his beliefs about how organized medicine should lead efforts to help humanity.
“I hope we remain the guiding force that improves the health of all Texans,” Dr. Carlo said. “The united voice of over 60,000 [TMA member] physicians can accomplish so much more than what each can do in an individual examination room. The great network created by TMA members from all backgrounds and areas of medicine improves patient care through the sharing of information, best practices, and collective solutions.”
The 30-year TMA member has chaired the councils on Science and Public Health, Legislation, and Socioeconomics. He also represents Texas doctors in the American Medical Association House of Delegates. He previously chaired the Texas Public Health Coalition, which was instrumental in helping the state advance legislation that raised the minimum age for tobacco purchase to 21 in Texas. He also remains active in the Dallas County Medical Society, having served as president in 2017 and continues to be involved in the emergency response plans.
Dr. Carlo is chief executive officer of Prism Health North Texas, the area’s largest community-based health care organization whose mission is promoting the health equities of communities through education, prevention, research, and affirming, personalized health care.