Name: Bradford Patt, MD
Specialty: Otolaryngology, Plastic Surgery
City: Houston
County Medical Society: Harris CMS
The Texas Medical Association Board of Trustees elected Bradford S. Patt, MD, to serve as vice chair in 2025-26, after the TMA House of Delegates renewed him to a new three-year term on the board.
The Houston otolaryngologist and facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon first joined the board in 2022.
As a TMA board member, Dr. Patt aspires to increase TMA membership and strengthen the voice of organized medicine in Texas. He believes physicians’ influence is stronger when they unite, and he hopes physicians engaging in organized medicine can “practice medicine in the manner they were intended to by maintaining the patient-physician relationship without intrusion from bureaucracy and insurance companies trying to regulate medicine.”
With more than two decades of involvement in the Family of Medicine under his belt, he believes physicians should advocate for patient care and the medical profession.
“Physicians must work hard to educate lawmakers at the state and federal level to make sure the patient-physician relationship will remain the mainstay in the practice of medicine," he said.
Dr. Patt also aspires to encourage lawmakers to support medicine-friendly issues, including ensuring nonphysicians are not allowed to practice medicine without a medical license, and adopting health insurance reforms. He also advocates for increased funding for graduate medical education to train more young physicians in the state.
He is concerned the corporate practice of medicine “will continue to expand and interfere with the independence physicians should have to take care of patients.”
Dr. Patt chaired TEXPAC, TMA’s political action committee, and served as a consultant to the TMA Council on Legislation. Dr. Patt also was a member of TMA’s Professional Liability Committee, which he said helped him inform newly elected state legislators about the importance of Texas’ medical liability laws. The former president of the Harris County Medical Society also chaired the county society’s delegation to the TMA House of Delegates in 2019.