As emcee Evan Smith pointed out at the top of the meal, the Medicaid expansion debate at the State Capitol provided a backdrop for People’s Community Clinic luncheon. Smith repeated one point: 6.2 million Texans are without health insurance.
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Those guests who squeezed into the Four Seasons Hotel banquet room didn’t need to be reminded of the longtime good work of the clinic, which serves more than 10,000 low-income Central Texans a year.
Not far into the proceedings, Dr. Nona Niland and Stewart Vanderwilt conferring Neal Kocurek Award to Ray Farabee and late wife Mary Margaret Farabee.
Volunteer and activist Mary Margaret is missed every day. Twelve words: Quiet Sen. Ray Farabee’s thanks at People’s Community Clinic lunch.
Featured speaker Dr. Steven Leslie updated the data-hungry gathering on new UT Dell Medical School.
Big question about UT Medical School: Where will it be? Another question: Research, community care or both?
Leslie assure the assembled that Leslie top national talent was already interested in leadership positions at UT Dell Medical School and that new dean should be hired by fall
Biomedical tech, neuroscience and computational science are three areas of research expected to cluster around the school’s labs.
Leslie says UT Dell Medical School will almost assuredly be at UT-Austin land near Brack’s teaching hospital and that the first class will start in three years.
At meal’s end, backers announced that $154,000 rwas aised in pledges during lunch. Mass morale zoomed on the news of the medical school, St David’s Foundation’s continuing community-wide help and the national push to provide health care for the needy.