The SCOOTER Store has commissioned a Physician Advisory Board which is composed of leaders within the physician community. Its members meet on a quarterly basis to offer advice and recommendations regarding policies and programs that impact physicians and their patients. Like you, the Physician Advisory Board is an advocate of your patient's healthcare.
The Physician Advisory Board serves a critical role in helping The SCOOTER Store provide relevant information to physicians and their patients who need power mobility. Participants represent specialties such as Geriatric Psychiatry as well as Family and Geriatric Medicine.
Justin Bartos, MD practices Family Medicine in North Richland Hills, Texas. He serves as the administrative Physician for North Hills Family Medicine. He is a former owner of Bishop Davies Nursing Center where he served as Medical Director for 20 years. Dr. Bartos is a past member of the Tarrant County Hospital District/John Peter Smith Hospital Board of Directors 2004-2006. Dr. Bartos is a Past-President of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, an organization of 5000 family physicians across Texas. He presently serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Practice Enhancement.
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Mark Burns, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is board certified in both Geriatric and General Psychiatry and maintains a private practice in New Braunfels, Texas. Dr. Burns received his MD degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, and completed his psychiatric residency at Duke University Medical Center where he was a chief resident and resident teacher of the year.
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Lawrence Hoberman, MD has spent over thirty years in medicine, having earned his board certification in Internal Medicine in June of 1972 and in Gastroenterology in October of 1975. With multiple stints as Director of the Gastroenterological Diagnostic Unit and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital, Dr. Hoberman has also published in many venues including the American Journal of Gastroenterology, American Journal of Radiation and American Journal of Clinical Pathology.
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Lloyd P. Van Winkle, MD of Castroville, Texas, is a family physician and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. A graduate of St. Mary's University in San Antonio and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Medicine, he has been in practice in Castroville for over twenty years. Dr. Van Winkle is a member and Past-President of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians and currently serves as one of TAFP's two delegates to the AAFP Congress of Delegates, and chairs the TAFP Political Action Committee Board of Directors.
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Larry R. Karrh, MD has served on the clinical faculty of the CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Medicine Program in San Antonio, Texas since 2003. Drawing on thirty-plus years in group and private practice, Dr. Karrh also lends his expertise to the VPMA-Quality at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-City Centre and Medical Center, as well as to the membership of the CSRH Adult and Children Performance Improvement Councils. Dr. Karrh graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, going on to hold a myriad of medical staff appointments throughout his distinguished career, including one made by the Speaker of the Texas State House of Representatives to the advisory committees of both the Outstanding Rural Scholar Recognition program and the Center for Rural Health Initiatives.
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