Five new officers have been elected to lead the Texas Medical Association Foundation (TMAF) board for the next two years. The elections took place on May 8 during TexMed, the annual conference of the Texas Medical Association (TMA), held in San Antonio.
The TMA Foundation supports programs that promote disease prevention, healthier lifestyles, public and patient health education based on evidence, and improved access to health care.
Clifford K. Moy, MD, a retired psychiatrist from Swiss Alp, was named TMAF board president after previously serving as vice president. Dr. Moy has held several leadership roles within medical organizations, including speaker of the TMA House of Delegates and chairing various committees. He also led the American Medical Association Council on Long Range Planning and Development.
Dr. Moy most recently worked as behavioral health medical director at TMF Health Quality Institute and contributed as a senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Board of Examiners. He is board certified in general psychiatry, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of both Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and Colorado-Fayette County Medical Society.
Stuart Pickell, MD, from Fort Worth was elected vice president. Dr. Pickell is board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics and practices at Palm Primary Care where he serves as medical director of the Tanglewood Clinic. He also directs Project Access Tarrant County and is a professor at Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.
Dr. Pickell was president of the Tarrant County Medical Society in 2023 and leads its ethics consortium while chairing Texas Talks, an advanced care planning nonprofit organization. As a second-career physician and ordained Presbyterian minister, he has volunteered for 20 years with Christian Community Clinic and participated in humanitarian missions abroad.
Debbie Massingill from Fort Worth was chosen as secretary. She has been active with both TMA Foundation and TMA Alliance—the statewide advocacy group for physician spouses—and served as president of her local alliance chapter during 2023-24. Mrs. Massingill co-chaired the foundation’s major fundraising gala two years ago alongside her spouse G. Sealy Massingill, MD; she has also led local efforts for Hard Hats for Little Heads helmet giveaways over many years while volunteering with March of Dimes and Junior League of Fort Worth.
Mike Moskovitz from Austin will serve as treasurer. An executive vice president at Frost Bank in Austin with more than twenty years’ experience in banking, Mr. Moskovitz is known for his expertise in healthcare administration having served three years as president of Capital City Medical Group Management association.
His academic background includes a business administration degree from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania focusing on finance and marketing.
Li-Yu Mitchell, MD—a family medicine physician from Tyler—was named executive committee member at large after previous service on both TMA Council on Science and Public Health (where she remains active) and Be Wise – Immunize Physician Advisory Panel; she also chaired Council on Health Promotion previously.
Dr. Mitchell is currently serving her second term as Smith County Medical Society president where she has held multiple offices; she represents this group to the TMA House of Delegates too.
She volunteers locally by leading Walk with a Doc events for five years; additionally she chaired Northeast Texas Public Health District’s board while continuing to advise her school district’s school health council aimed at improving wellness initiatives there.
In 2018 Dr Mitchell received recognition by being named “Health Hero” by TMA.
These new officers join Houston obstetrician-gynecologist Carla F Ortique MD—the immediate past foundation president who presided since 2023 after joining its board back in 2017.
Dr Ortique remains engaged through various other leadership positions within TMA including Council on Science & Public Health plus committees focused upon maternal/perinatal health issues or adolescent reproductive matters; she too acts as delegate within House Of Delegates structure.
