Dear Titus Harris Society members,

I hope that the holidays have been enjoyable for each of you and your families.

 

I want to catch everyone up on several things.

In the past 4-5 months, we have begun a long-term strategy of recruiting to increase the membership of the Society, which we will continue to pursue in 2024. In this regard, if you think of a colleague, whether from medical school or from residency/fellowship training at UTMB Galveston, whom you would like to invite into the Society, please do. Likewise, if you have a colleague who is esteemed and respected professionally, but who doesn’t have a Galveston experience, please suggest that he/she consider associate membership. Added to that, please send me your friend’s name and contact information so that I might reach out as well.

Do not worry if you passed through the rites of passage a long time ago, or only quite recently, we would love to have you become a member.

To follow up my Sept. 26th letter, our November 8 th meeting at the San Luis Hotel in Galveston during the annual TSPP meeting, was stimulating and worthwhile. Dr. Alcides Amador’s protégé from UTRGV, Sridher Srinivasan, gave a remarkable talk on the status of AI in Psychiatry, elucidating AI’s evolving role of assistance to our clinical work with patients.

Lastly, I am pleased to let each of you know that our Society’s website has been updated to be user friendly again! Accessing information, applications, and paying dues and/or contributing to the Towler Fund separately (for resident THS meeting assistance), are now easily doable.

If any of you can peer into the future or dexterously rub a crystal ball, and come up with ways to fill the Society’s coffers or strategize a financially successful future meeting, let me know. In the meantime, E.T. phone home.

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Take care, Dan
Dan Goggin MD, Interim President, Titus Harris Society

Email: dagmdpafw@sbcglobal.net,

Office (817) 338-0808