Jan. 12, 2024
● WHAT: San Antonio residents of all
ages are encouraged to lace up their walking shoes and join Adrienne Roth, MD, and
medical student Mrs. Cecelia Daniel – both of UT Health San Antonio Long School
of Medicine – for their first Walk with a Future Doc Texas event.
●WHEN:
Saturday, Jan. 13, at 9
am (recurring monthly every second Saturday)
●WHERE: San Pedro Springs Park, 2200 N. Flores St., San Antonio (meet at the San Pedro
Playhouse)
●WHO: Dr. Roth, Mrs. Daniel, Long School of Medicine staff members and medical
students, and any community members interested in participating.
●WHY:
Walking is one of the simplest, best things people can do to live a long,
high-quality life. Walk with a Future Doc makes it easy by providing the time,
place, motivation (a brief health information talk), and fellow participants
for a fun walking experience.
The Walk with a Future Doc concept is simple: Physicians and
medical students organize walks in their communities and invite their patients,
their patients’ families, and community members to join them. Walkers will
enjoy a refreshing and invigorating walk with medical students including Mrs.
Daniel, physicians including Dr. Roth, and other health care professionals, who
will provide support to participants and answer questions during the walk. Walk with a Doc Texas is overseen by a national nonprofit
organization to get people active and healthy, and is backed by the Texas
Medical Association (TMA) in Texas. Walk with a Future Doc allows medical
students to host walks just as their physician counterparts do.
This is a FREE program, and
preregistration is not required. Information about future walks will be
announced on this chapter’s Walk with a Future Doc
website.
TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation,
representing more than 57,000 physician and medical student members. It is located
in Austin and has 110 component county medical societies around the state.
TMA’s key objective since 1853 is to improve the health of all Texans. TMA
Foundation, TMA’s philanthropic arm, raises funds to support the public health
and science priority initiatives of TMA and the family of medicine, including
Walk with a Doc Texas. TMA’s Walk with a Doc Texas is funded in 2023 by the TMA
Foundation with generous support from TMA Insurance Trust, Prudential, and Baylor
Scott & White Health. To learn more, visit the TMA Foundation website.
Walk with a Doc is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire
communities through movement and conversation with physician-led walking
groups. Walk with a Doc was started in 2005 by David Sabgir, MD, a
board-certified cardiologist in Columbus, Ohio. To learn more, visit the Walk with a Doc website.
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Contacts:
Brent Annear, (512) 656-7320
Swathi Narayanan, (408) 987-1318