Five new officers have been elected to 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), in San Antonio.
The TMA Foundation supports TMA’s philanthropic work, including programs that promote disease prevention, healthier lifestyles, evidence-based health education, and increased access to care.
Clifford K. Moy, MD, a retired psychiatrist from Swiss Alp, will serve as president after having been vice president for the past two years. Dr. Moy has held various leadership positions within organized 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, he was behavioral health medical director at TMF Health Quality Institute and served as a senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Board of Examiners.
Dr. Moy is board certified in general psychiatry and is recognized as a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also a member of Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and belongs to Colorado-Fayette County Medical Society.
Stuart Pickell, MD, from Fort Worth was chosen as vice president. Dr. Pickell practices internal medicine and pediatrics at Palm Primary Care’s Tanglewood Clinic where he is medical director; he also directs Project Access Tarrant County. He teaches at Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University and leads both his local medical society’s ethics consortium and chairs Texas Talks nonprofit focused on advanced care planning.
“Dr. Pickell was president of the Tarrant County Medical Society in 2023,” according to the announcement. In addition to his clinical roles, he is an ordained Presbyterian minister who continues preaching occasionally. His volunteer work includes 20 years with Christian Community Clinic and humanitarian missions abroad.
Debbie Massingill from Fort Worth will serve as secretary. She has been active in both TMA Foundation fundraising efforts—co-chairing its 30th annual gala—and local advocacy through her leadership in physician spouse groups like TMA Alliance statewide organization and her chapter presidency for Tarrant County Medical Society Alliance in 2023-24.
Her community service extends beyond medicine: she has contributed to organizations such as March of Dimes and Junior League of Fort Worth.
Mike Moskovitz from Austin becomes treasurer; he serves as executive vice president with Frost Bank in Austin with more than twenty years’ experience in banking management—including three years leading Capital City Medical Group Management association—and holds a degree in business administration from Bloomsburg University.
Li-Yu Mitchell, MD—a family physician based in Tyler—was elected executive committee member at large. She sits on multiple state medical councils focusing on public health initiatives; she previously chaired both TMA’s Council on Health Promotion and its Be Wise – Immunize advisory panel while serving two terms leading Smith County Medical Society.
Dr. Mitchell’s other contributions include chairing Northeast Texas Public Health District’s board and serving five years as 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.” In 2018 she was named a Health Hero by TMA.
The newly elected officers join Houston obstetrician-gynecologist Carla F. Ortique, MD—the immediate past president—who led since 2023 after joining the foundation board in 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.”
