Keynote

Nancy Dickey, MD

After nearly 12 years of service as president of the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) and vice chancellor for health affairs for The Texas A&M University System (January 2002 through October 2012), Dr. Nancy W. Dickey returned to the School of Medicine where she serves a number of roles both academic and administrative. During her tenure, the health science center grew the number of programs and number of graduates, expanded its research programs and extended its service to the citizens of Texas.

Currently, she serves as Interim Department Head for the Department of Medical Humanities as well as professor of Primary Care and Rural Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Policy in the School of Public Health.  She has been principal investigator on a number of grants working with physicians and hospitals across the state of Texas and the nation to sustain services of small rural hospitals for the people they serve and demonstrating the importance of translation of sound policy and evidence-based medicine across the spectrum of practice sites and care delivery.

Other roles at A&M include service as interim dean of the TAMHSC School of Medicine (June 2000 until Dec. 31, 2001), - founding director of the TAMU Family Medicine Residency, and Executive Director of the A&M Rural and Community Health Institute. Dr. Dickey was the first woman elected president of the American Medical Association. She is the recipient of numerous awards: American Academy of Family Medicine John G. Walsh Award for Lifetime Contributions to Family Medicine (2019), Institute of Medicine (2007), Texas’s Women’s Hall of Fame (2010), and six honorary doctorate degrees.