Last updated on:
8/23/2007 |
Author: ProCon.org
Nancy W. Dickey, MD Biography
- Title:
- President of the Texas A&M Health Science Center
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of May 30, 2007
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to end-of-life issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to end-of-life. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- President of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for The Texas A&M University System, 2003-Present
- Honorary Doctor of Science, Mercer University’s School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia, 2003
- Professor, Family and Community Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, 1996-Present
- Interim Dean of the College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, 2000-2001
- President, American Medical Association, 1998-1999
- Member, National Institutes of Health’s Advisory Council on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1987-90
- Founding member and first Board Chair, the National Patient Safety Foundation
- Board member, Archives of Family Medicine
- Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians
- Founder, Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency of the Brazos Valley
- Editor-in-Chief, Medem
- Practicing family physician
- Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Texas Medical School
- First woman to be elected President of the American Medical Association
- Member, Board of Trustees, Scott and White Foundation
- Education:
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- MD, Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, 1976
- BA, Stephen F. Austin State University
- Other:
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- None found
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