May 20, 2025
Five new officers were elected to lead the Texas Medical Association Foundation (TMAF) board for the upcoming two years. TMAF elected the officers on May 8 during TexMed, the annual conference of the Texas Medical Association (TMA), which took place in San Antonio.
The foundation supports the philanthropic vision of TMA, and backs programs that focus on disease prevention and healthier lifestyles, evidenced-based public and patient health education, and increasing access to health care.
Clifford K. Moy, MD, a retired Swiss Alp psychiatrist, was elected TMAF board president after serving as vice president for the past two years. He has held various leadership roles in the Family of Medicine. He was speaker of the TMA House of Delegates, and he served on the TMA Council on Medical Education and several committees. He also chaired the American Medical Association Council on Long Range Planning and Development.
Most recently, Dr. Moy served as the behavioral health medical director at TMF Health Quality Institute. He also contributed as a senior examiner on the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Board of Examiners.
Dr. Moy is board certified in general psychiatry, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and the Colorado-Fayette County Medical Society.
The board elected Stuart Pickell, MD, of Fort Worth vice president. He is board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics and is in practice with Palm Primary Care where he is medical director of the Tanglewood Clinic. Dr. Pickell also serves as medical director for Project Access Tarrant County. He also is a professor of internal medicine and ethics theme lead at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.
Dr. Pickell was president of the Tarrant County Medical Society in 2023. He leads the medical society's ethics consortium and chairs the advanced care planning nonprofit Texas Talks.
A second-career physician, Dr. Pickell is an ordained Presbyterian minister who still periodically preaches. He has volunteered for 20 years with the Christian Community Clinic and served in humanitarian missions abroad.
Debbie Massingill of Fort Worth was elected board secretary. Mrs. Massingill has been an active volunteer in the TMA Foundation and the TMA Alliance statewide physician spouse/outreach advocacy organization. She also was president of her local Tarrant County Medical Society Alliance chapter in 2023-24.
Two years ago, Mrs. Massingill and her spouse, G. Sealy Massingill, MD, co-chaired the 30th annual TMA Foundation gala, the foundation’s major fundraising event, and she has also chaired her local Hard Hats for Little Heads TMA helmet giveaway program for many years.
In serving her local community, Mrs. Massingill has been active in the March of Dimes and Junior League of Fort Worth.
The board elected Mike Moskovitz of Austin treasurer. He is an executive vice president with Frost Bank in Austin and has over two decades of experience in the banking sector.
Mr. Moskovitz also is recognized for his expertise in health care administration and served as president of the Capital City Medical Group Management association for three years.
His foundation in finance and marketing stems from his degree in business administration and management from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.
Li-Yu Mitchell, MD, a Tyler family medicine physician, was elected executive committee member at large. A TMA Council on Science and Public Health member as well, she previously chaired TMA’s Council on Health Promotion and served on the association’s Be Wise – Immunize Physician Advisory Panel.
Dr. Mitchell is serving her second term as president of the Smith County Medical Society, for which she also has held other offices. She also is a delegate to the TMA House of Delegates.
Dr. Mitchell also has volunteered for local health initiatives, including five years of serving as a Tyler Walk with a Doc walk leader for community members. She also chaired the board of the Northeast Texas Public Health District and continues to serve her local school district’s school health advisory council, improving health and wellness there. TMA named Dr. Mitchell a Health Hero in 2018.
The new board officers join Houston obstetrician-gynecologist Carla F. Ortique, MD, the foundation’s immediate past president. Dr. Ortique presided over the board since 2023, having been a member since 2017.
Dr. Ortique also has been active in many other TMA leadership roles, including the Council on Science and Public Health, Committee on Maternal and Perinatal Health, Patient-Physician Advocacy Committee, and the Subcommittee on Adolescent Reproductive Health. She also is a delegate to the TMA House of Delegates.
TMA Foundation is the philanthropic
arm of TMA, which funds TMA’s outreach and population health and science initiatives.
TMA's flagship initiatives include the Hard Hats for Little Heads program,
which has distributed hundreds of thousands of bicycle helmets to protect Texas
children; Walk with a Doc Texas, connecting communities with physicians through
monthly walks; the Vaccines Defend What Matters campaign, promoting
immunization awareness and access; and scholarship investments to grow the
physician workforce.
TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation, representing more than 59,000 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.
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TMA Contacts: Brent Annear (512) 370-1381; cell: (512) 656-7320; email: brent.annear@texmed.org
Swathi Narayanan (512) 370-1382; cell: (408) 987-1318; email: swathi.narayanan@texmed.org