Nancy Dickey, MD
President Emeritus, Texas A&M Health Science Center; Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine; Professor, Department of Medical Humanities, College of Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center
8441 State Hwy 47, Suite 4100
Bryan,
TX
USA
77807
Biographical Sketch: Nancy W. Dickey currently serves as a professor in the Department of Family and Community
Medicine and the Department of Medical Humanities in the College of Medicine and as a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center. She also carries the title President Emeritus of the Health Science Center having served in the role of president for over a decade prior to stepping out of administration and into teaching and policy development.
Nancy Dickey assumed the role of president of the Texas A&M Health Science Center TAMHSC) and vice chancellor for health affairs for The Texas A&M University System in 2002. She served in that role until October 2012.
Dickey was the first woman ever to be elected president of the American Medical
Association. Before serving as AMA's president, Dickey served as chair of the association's Board of Trustees and headed the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. She also chaired the Texas Medical Association's Patient-Physician Advocacy Committee and is active in both the American and Texas Academy of Family Physicians. She was elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine in 2007 and to Texas’s Women’s Hall of Fame in 2010.
Dickey received her M.D. and residency training at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
Papers:
PLENARY: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA): PERSPECTIVES OF THE GOVERNMENT, PHYSICIANS, HOSPITALS, PAYERS, AND PATIENTS