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Local Courses TMA Leadership College

Find local courses where physicians learn to manage The TMA Leadership College (TMALC) is part of TMA’s
and diffuse conflict, develop effective best practices, effort to ensure strong and sustainable physician
leadership within organized medicine. TMALC
create solutions, and prepare to lead organized
graduates serve as thought leaders who can close the
medicine.
divide among clinicians and health care policymakers,
and as trusted leaders within their local communities.

Local Societies

Numerous Specialty Societies and International Affiliated Medical Societies operate in the Greater
Houston area and offer various networking and leadership opportunities. The organizations form the
HCMS Council of Specialty Societies and the HCMS Council of International and Affiliated Medical
Societies. HCMS offers leadership opportunities within both Councils.

Council of Specialty Societies Council of International and

Affiliated Medical Societies

• Greater Houston Allergy, Asthma & Immunology • American Lebanese Medical Association Houston Chapter
Society • Arab American Medical Association Houston Chapter
• Harris County Academy of Family Physicians • Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North
• Harris County Chapter of the Texas Neurological America Houston Chapter
Society • Chinese American Doctors Association of Houston
• Houston Bariatric Society • Hispanic American Medical Association of Houston
• Houston Dermatological Society • Houston Medical Forum
• Houston Gynecological & Obstetrical Society • Indian Doctors Association of Houston
• Houston Infectious Diseases Society • Islamic Medical Association of Greater Houston
• Houston Neurological Society • Texas Association of Philippine Physicians
• Houston Ophthalmological Society • TMA International Medical Graduates Section
• Houston Orthopaedic Society • Vietnamese American Medical Association of Greater
• Houston Pediatric Society Houston
• Houston Psychiatric Society
• Houston Radiological Society
• Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists
• Houston Society of Otolaryngology
– Head & Neck Surgery
• Houston Society of Plastic Surgery
• Houston Surgical Society
• Texas Gulf Coast Anesthesia Society
• Texas Gulf Coast Gastroenterological Society
• The Society of Emergency Medicine