Five new officers have been elected to the Texas Medical Association Foundation (TMAF) board for a two-year term. The election took place on May 8 during TexMed, the Texas Medical Association’s annual conference in San Antonio.
The TMA Foundation supports TMA’s efforts to promote disease prevention, public and patient health education based on evidence, and better access to health care.
Clifford K. Moy, MD, was named president of the TMAF board after serving as vice president for two years. Dr. Moy is a retired psychiatrist from Swiss Alp who has held several leadership positions within organized medicine. He was previously speaker of the TMA House of Delegates and participated in various TMA committees. Additionally, he chaired 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 served as a senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Board of Examiners. He is certified in general psychiatry, recognized as a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and belongs to Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and Colorado-Fayette County Medical Society.
Stuart Pickell, MD, of Fort Worth will serve as vice president. Dr. Pickell practices internal medicine and pediatrics at Palm Primary Care’s Tanglewood Clinic where he is medical director. He also leads Project Access Tarrant County as medical director and teaches at Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.
In 2023, Dr. Pickell was president of the Tarrant County Medical Society; he leads its ethics consortium and chairs Texas Talks nonprofit focused on advanced care planning. A second-career physician and ordained Presbyterian minister, Dr. Pickell volunteers with Christian Community Clinic and participates in humanitarian missions abroad.
Debbie Massingill of Fort Worth was chosen as secretary. She has volunteered extensively with both the TMA Foundation and the statewide outreach group TMA Alliance; she led her local chapter during 2023-24. Mrs. Massingill co-chaired the foundation’s 30th annual gala two years ago—a key fundraising event—and runs her local Hard Hats for Little Heads helmet giveaway program for children.
Mrs. Massingill is also active in community organizations such as March of Dimes and Junior League of Fort Worth.
Mike Moskovitz from Austin will serve as treasurer. He is executive vice president at Frost Bank in Austin with more than twenty years’ experience in banking. Mr. Moskovitz previously served three years as president of Capital City Medical Group Management association; his background includes a degree in business administration from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.
Li-Yu Mitchell, MD, a family medicine physician from Tyler, was elected executive committee member at large. She serves on the TMA Council on Science and Public Health and formerly chaired its Council on Health Promotion; she also contributed to Be Wise – Immunize Physician Advisory Panel.
Dr. Mitchell is currently serving her second term as Smith County Medical Society president while holding other offices there too; she acts as delegate to the TMA House of Delegates.
Her volunteer work includes leading Tyler Walk with a Doc events for five years and chairing Northeast Texas Public Health District’s board; she continues supporting her local school district’s wellness council.
TMA recognized Dr. Mitchell as a Health Hero in 2018.
The newly elected officers join Carla F. Ortique, MD—Houston obstetrician-gynecologist—as immediate past president after presiding since 2023; she has been part of the board since 2017.
Dr. Ortique remains active across multiple leadership roles within TMA including work with science/public health councils, maternal/perinatal health committees, advocacy groups for patients/physicians, adolescent reproductive health subcommittees,
and serves as delegate to House of Delegates.
