Gov. Perry Appoints Holliday to Texas Medical Board

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Scott Holliday of University Park to the Texas Medical Board for a term to expire April 13, 2013. The board protects and enhances the public’s health, safety and welfare by establishing and maintaining standards of excellence used in regulating the practice of medicine and ensuring quality health care for the citizens of Texas.

Holliday is an anesthesiologist at Pinnacle Partners in Medicine and chairman of the Arlington Memorial Hospital Department of Anesthesiology.  He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Texas Osteopathic Medical Association, and Texas Medical Association.  He is also an American Board of Anesthesiology Diplomate, and the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists District 2 State Delegate.  Holliday received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate of osteopathic medicine from Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience. He completed his anesthesiology residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.  Holliday replaces Dr. Roberta Kalafut of Abilene.