REPORT OF BOARD OF COUNCILORS
BOC Report 2-A-06
Subject: Distinguished Service Award - Mark J. Kubala, MD
Presented by: John W. Scroggins, MD, Chair
Acting upon a nomination by the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Board of Councilors has selected Mark J. Kubala, MD, Beaumont, to receive the association's Distinguished Service Award. The award will be presented on Friday, May 5, at the House of Delegates.
Dr. Kubala, a neurosurgeon, has worked tirelessly during his long career on behalf of his patients and his colleagues at the state and national levels. His work has taken him to the highest levels of organized medicine, including the presidency of the Texas Medical Association in 1995-1996. He also has served as a member of the TMA Board of Trustees, 1989 to 1998; Speaker and Vice Speaker of the TMA House of Delegates, 1989-1993; chair of the TMA Committee on Professional Liability, 1988; a member of the TMA Committee on Health Careers, 1970-1974, TMA Council on Constitution and Bylaws, 1983-1988, and TMA Task Force on Adolescent Medicine, 1990-present; and president of the Texas Medical Foundation, 1994-1995 and 1999-2001. He has been a delegate to TMA since 1973 and a delegate to the American Medical Association since 1996.
Among other roles, Dr. Kubala also has served as:
- Chair, Manpower Subcommittee, Joint Council of State Neurological Societies, 1980-1981;
- Member, Executive Committee, Congress of Neurologic Surgeons, 1982-1985;
- Neurosurgical Representative, Council of Medical Specialty Societies Task Force on Physician Manpower, 1982-1983; and,
- President, Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1985-1986.
"Mark is a doctor's doctor," Jefferson County Medical Society President David Teuscher, MD, said in nominating Dr. Kubala for the award. "As our colleague, our doctor, our leader, and our friend, he represents the best qualities of servant leadership among us."
Dr. Kubala's efforts were recognized in 1998 when he received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. In 1995, he was named the Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus by The University of Texas Medical Branch.
Dr. Kubala earned a BA from The University of Texas in 1955 and his medical degree from UTMB in 1958. He completed his residency at the Baylor College of Medicine and Mayo Clinic, and served in the U.S. Air Force in the Department of Neurosurgery at Williford Hall Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Since 1966, Dr. Kubala has been in private practice in Beaumont, where he has served as Chief of Section and Chief of Surgery at all three Beaumont hospitals.
TMA House of Delegates: TexMed 2006