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Our Faculty
Jonathan MacClements, M.D.
Associate Professor, Chairman of Family Medicine, Residency Program Director, and Director of Medical Education
Medical School:
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Residency:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Additional Certification:
Adolescent Medicine, Clinical Tropical Medicine
Special Interests:
Aviation Medicine, Travel Medicine, Diving Medicine, and ENT
Biography:
Dr. Jonathan MacClements was educated at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg graduating in 1989. He accomplished an internship in general medicine, practiced for a year, and finished an additional year of training in Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery before coming to the United States and attending the University of Texas Health Science Center Tyler Family Medicine program. He was a chief resident and graduated in 1996 and practiced rural medicine in Chandler Texas until 2000.
He was pleased to move back from private practice to pursue his passion for education and join the faculty. He took over as the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency in 2003 and additionally the Director of Medical Education of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler in 2004. Dr. MacClements is a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner, is certified in Tropical Medicine and Traveler’s Health, and has an Additional Qualification in Adolescent Medicine.
He believes that learning should be enjoyable and that our program provides a supportive environment for training a quality family medicine physician. As a life long learner, he is dedicated to mastering the complexities of piloting an airplane while learning the bagpipes. He has been observed torturing the residents with his flying anecdotes and threatens to wear his kilt to work. He is proud of the fact that he has successfully flown to and landed at Oshkosh three times, and would love to fly to an offshore island to pursue his scuba diving interests, or to Colorado to snow ski. Fortunately his wife and daughter help keep him grounded, as his dreams of owning his own airplane threaten to financially ruin him.
Professor of Family Medicine
Undergraduate:
Stanford University
Medical School:
University of Oregon
Residency:
University of Arizona Medical Center
Additional Certification:
Geriatrics, Sports Medicine
Special Interests:
Sports Medicine and Geriatric Medicine
Biography:
Dr. Richard Viken attended medical school at the Oregon Health Sciences University, residency at the University of Arizona Medical Center, and cut his teaching teeth while serving on the network faculty of the Family Medicine Department at the University of California Davis. He moved to Tyler as director of the Family Medicine Residency Program in its third year (1987).
Dr. Viken and Dr. MacClements are the only University of Texas physicians to serve as President of the 500-member Smith County Medical Society. Dr. Viken is the founding and current editor of the Society’s journal, East Texas Medicine. He is an active member of the Residency Assistance Program (RAP), a consulting division of the American Academy of Family Physicians, dedicated to the enrichment of residency training. He maintains Certificates of Added Qualification in Geriatric Medicine and Sports Medicine and owns a 4A Texas State Football Championship ring.
He has two grown sons and a charming wife of 32 years who covers for him in awkward social situations. Dr. Viken appreciates thinking and working outside the box in order to arrive at creative solutions to problems (example: if your car is making loud noises, turn up the radio). His passion is writing, and he is currently working on his 723 rd unpublished book. He enjoys international travel, and has lost his luggage in seven languages.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Medical School:
Texas Tech University School of Medicine
Residency:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Special Interests:
Women’s Health, Medical Missions, Sports Medicine
Biography:
In 2000, Dr. Patti Burk Olusola graduated AOA from Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Lubbock, the "Land of Wind & Sand". She then migrated East to Tyler, the "Land of Lakes & Trees", for her residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. While in residency she was able to go on a medical mission trip to Zambia, Africa; fulfill duties as chief resident during her 3 rd year; and found a husband along the way.
Dr. Olusola was asked to stay on at UTHSCT as faculty, and after several months of self-reflection and consideration, decided to take the plunge into academic medicine and has never looked back. During her first year as faculty, she completed a Faculty Development Fellowship with training in clinical teaching, curriculum design, and research. She wears many hats in the residency program including Pre-doctoral director for the UT Southwestern 3 rd -year medical student clerkship in Tyler.
She enjoys curriculum development, women’s health care (including colposcopy), evidence-base medicine, and a "Girls Night Out" every now and then.
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Undergraduate: The University of Texas at Tyler
Medical School: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Residency: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Dr. Tompkins completed his residency training at UTHSCT in 1997, where he served as Chief resident. Prior to joining the Family Medicine departmet he worked in the UTHSCT Primary Health Clinic, and as a UTHSCT Hospitalist.
Dr. Tompkins is the Director of Extramural degree programs. In addition he plans daily and weekly didactic lectures and has an interest in broad-based family medicine. Dr. Tompkins feels that the program has great residents who are a pleasure to teach.
Dr. Tompkins was selected Faculty of the Year by the Family Medicine residents in 2007.
Dr. Tompkins is married to Debbie. They have one daughter and son-in-law and two grandsons. When he is not rescuing homeless animals [3 dogs, 12 cats at last count] he enjoys fishing and cycling. He recently competed in the "Hotter N’ Hell 100" in Wichita Falls and lived to tell about it!
Medical School: West Virginia University School of Medicine
Residency: Mountain Area Health Education Center Family Medicine Residency Program
Hi from Tyler, TX! I joined the Family Medicine faculty in January 2009. I came to Tyler from Asheville, NC where I was a faculty member at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC). I completed my Family Medicine residency with MAHEC in June 2006 and was asked to open and manage a satellite clinic for MAHEC. As medical director for the Cane Creek Clinic, I also functioned as a teaching faculty for the residency, practiced obstetrics, and attended on the inpatient service with the residents.
After 2 ½ years out of residency, having 2 children, & 2 dogs, my husband & I decided it was time to move closer to our families in Texas. And believe me, our parents are happy to have their grandkids closer. My daughter, Emma, and son, Cade, love the warmer climate here in Texas and have visited the amazing Caldwell Zoo more times than I can count.
Joining the UTHSCT Family Medicine Residency Program has been a great career move and I love working with and teaching the residents. My special interests include: women’s health, preventive health care, adolescent and pediatric health care, practice management, billing & coding.
In our extra time, my husband, Scott, and I love to hike, run, bike, garden, and just act plain silly with our kids.
For those students interested in our program, please feel free to contact me with any questions: Michele.Bosworth@uthct.edu.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Medical School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Residency: Eastern Virginia Medical School
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Medical School: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Residency: National Naval Medical Center
Dr. Monique Mills grew up in El Paso, Texas and did her undergraduate work at UTEP. She went on to attend medical school in San Antonio on a scholarship from the United States Navy. Dr. Mills completed her pediatric training at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and then served military families as a pediatrician at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. She has been board certified in pediatrics since 1996.
When her commitment to the military was complete, Dr. Mills was eager to return to Texas but anxious to get out of the desert. The beauty and greenery of the Piney Woods of East Texas attracted Dr. Mills to Tyler, where she has been practicing pediatrics since 1998. She has been the medical director of the East Texas PALS program since 2001. Dr. Mills came to UTHSCT in 2005. She currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine and oversees pediatric education in the Family Medicine Residency Program.
Kathryn Wortz, Ph.D
Behavioral Science
Undergraduate: University of California at Los Angeles
Graduate: Texas Tech University
Doctorate: Texas Tech University
Kathryn Wortz, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, who received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Texas Tech University. A part-timer on our faculty, she is an avid gardener and spends the rest of her week on her farm, growing organic vegetables and trying to keep her dogs out of trouble.
A native Californian, she has remade herself several times over. After graduating magna cum laude from UCLA, she learned to adjust to the flat, windy plains of Lubbock. As a 22-year-old graduate student, her first trip to a Texas grocery store was an adventure. People actually talked to her in the check-out line! (In Los Angeles, this is a clear indication that someone is schizophrenic.) She was sure she had hit the mother lode of psychological illness. Instead, she discovered she had simply entered another culture.
Acculturation has indeed been a long process for her. Her first job was as behavioral science faculty at the Family Practice Residency in Odessa, where she was first introduced to the culture of medicine. The birth of her child foisted her out of that culture and into the culture of motherhood. From there, she began private practice in Midland, which kept her interest for 20 years and helped fund the college educations of her six kids.
Older and wiser, she began to hope for the opportunity to impart her experience to others. And, like Dr. Olusola, she longed for the “Land of Lakes & Trees.” When the last college account was funded, she and her husband left the desert and came to the promised land. The cultural adjustment was made easier by the natural beauty and fabulous sunsets. Here, they enjoy the stature of the trees, the lovely rolling hills, and the water. The opportunity to teach (at UTHSCTyler) came on the heals of their move, and she finds herself living happily ever after, influencing great young minds and playing in the dirt.
Donna Mann, LMSW
Program Manager for Residency Recruitment and Training
Undergraduate:
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate:
University of Pittsburgh
Special Interests:
Geriatrics, Community Medicine, Resident Recruitment, Didactics
Biography:
After graduating with a Master’s degree in Social Work, Mrs. Mann lived in Los Angeles and New York City, sharpening both her social work and survival skills. In 1990 she moved to the "capital of the world" Tyler, Texas, where she was hired by the Health Science Center to teach Geriatics in the residency program.
Through both personal family experience and professional experience she developed a strong interest in Dementia and related disorders. Mrs. Mann overcame tremendous stage fright [sort of] to speak at several aging conferences on the subject and was recently the co-keynote speaker for the Area Agency on Aging conference. She also produced an educational video "When a Mind is Lost-The Odyssey of Alzheimer’s Disease" which has been shown at national conferences.
Her other strong interest is in the area of resident recruitment. Being a self proclaimed "people person" she enjoys meeting students and recruiting them to the residency program. She has entertained everyone from spouses to babies to prairie dogs in her office and loved every minute. She also enjoys building relationships with the residents and watching as they and their families "grow", and is personally responsible for the" traveling maternity wardrobe".
Mrs. Mann [along with her collegue Dr. Bosworth] is a proud member of the "Steeler Nation"
It is a well known fact that she can be tremendously influenced by chocolate.