In Memoriam

Medical School

• Graham L. Pierce Jr., M.D. (’48)
• Fred L. Snipes, M.D. (’56)
• Anita Campbell Gilliam, M.D. (’88)
• Jon D. Lund, M.D. (’88)
• Hung V. Le, M.D. (’92)

Graduate School

• Robert C. Murry, Jr., Ph.D. (’79)

Medical School 

Class of 1961: Lloyd M. Garland, M.D., has been named presiding officer of the five-member State Office of Risk Management by Gov. Greg Abbott. Dr. Garland, a Lubbock resident, will serve on the board until 2021. The State Office of Risk Management administers insurance services obtained by state agencies, including the self-insured government employees workers’ compensation insurance program and the state risk management programs.

A retired board certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Garland currently is an associate clinical professor of surgery at Texas Tech University’s School of Medicine. He also is a current member of the House of Delegates for the Texas Medical Association. Dr. Garland is a past member on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors and is currently serving as a director on the Texas State Bar, Center for Legal Ethics.

He has previously served as a physician in the U.S. Air Force and as Chief of Staff for the Lubbock Methodist Hospital. The UT Austin graduate holds memberships in several medical associations, including the Southern Medical Association, Rocky Mountain Neurosurgical Society, Flying Physicians Association, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is a past President of the Lubbock County Medical Association and the Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Class of 1968: Leslie H. Secrest, M.D., was honored by the Dallas County Medical Society in January, receiving the Charles Max Cole, M.D., Leadership Award from the group. The annual recognition is given to a DCMS member for outstanding service to the profession of medicine and to the community.

Dr. Secrest, Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern, has served medicine in leadership roles throughout his career, including as past Chair and now consultant to the Texas Medical Association’s Council on Legislation. He is also a member of the TMA Foundation Board of Trustees, the TMA Council on Health Promotion, the TEXPAC Executive Committee, the TMA Delegation to the AMA, and as the Chair of a TMA task force on behavioral health. Dr. Secrest has been a member of DCMS since 1971 and served as President of the DCMS in 2005.

A faculty member since 1974, Dr. Secrest attended Wheaton College in Illinois before entering medical school. He completed his psychoanalytic training at New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute in New Orleans in 1983. Dr. Secrest did his internship at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and residency training at UT Southwestern.

Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. At UT Southwestern, his activities include clinical, teaching, and administrative. Dr. Secrest’s clinical expertise includes psychoanalysis and treatments of addictions.

The Dallas County Medical Society is a professional organization of approximately 7,300 local physicians, residents, and medical students dedicated to serving Dallas-area patients, making it the second-largest county medical society in the U.S.

Class of 1978: William C. Pederson, M.D., has joined the Department of Surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Dr. Peterson, who specializes in hand reconstruction, hand trauma, brachial plexus repair and lower limb reconstruction, also serves as a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.

A native Texan, Dr. Pederson is an honors graduate of UT Austin. He completed an internship and residency in surgery at UT Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Pederson then trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Duke University Medical Center and was a Christine Kleinert Fellow in hand surgery at the University of Louisville Health Science Center. He subsequently completed a one-year fellowship in microsurgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Pederson was elected President of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery in 2005, and was appointed as a Director of the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 2013. He serves in leadership roles with the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery as well as the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.

Dr. Pederson, who has written more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed literature and 40 textbook chapters, is an editor of the textbook Green’s Operative Hand Surgery, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hand Surgery and the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. He also serves on the dean’s advisory council of the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin and is a consultant to the Texas Medical Board.