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The Texas Medical Association (TMA) elected Kimberly E. Monday, MD, president-elect in April 2026 during TexMed, TMA’s annual conference. The Houston neurologist will serve one year in this office before becoming president.
“I am honored to be selected by my peers and energized to lead the largest state medical society in the country,” said Dr. Monday.
As president-elect, Dr. Monday looks forward to supporting TMA’s new president, Bradford Holland, MD, as he and the association prepare for the 2027 legislative session.
TMA will install Dr. Monday as the association’s 162nd president in April of 2027.
She brings a broad perspective and understanding of different medical practice settings. She has experience running an independent practice as well as working in a hospital.
Dr. Monday initially ran an independent private practice – later affiliated with a hospital network – and now continues to see patients in her role as chief medical officer for outpatient specialty care at Houston’s McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, where she is also an associate professor and vice chair of clinical operations in the department of neurology.
Dr. Monday notes that in each role she has “seen the consistent thread of external control” erode the patient-physician relationship.
“I will advocate fiercely for physicians in every practice setting and every region of our state,” she pledged.
A primary focus for her is protecting the role of physicians as the most qualified professionals to lead patient care.
“Physicians are in the best position to determine what health care services people and communities need, who should provide those services, and in what context,” Dr. Monday said.
She plans to fight scope-of-practice issues, which involves nonphysician health care professionals pushing for independent practice authority, seeking the ability to diagnose and prescribe as physicians do – but without the same education and training. Physicians contend doing so would lower the standard of patient care.
“As doctors, we have been granted the privilege of sharing our patients’ lives and struggles,” she said. “We are the best observers of what policies improve care.”
Dr. Monday has been an active TMA member since 1997. She was drawn to organized medicine – involvement in associations such as TMA – by the belief that physicians are the strongest when they act collectively.
She has served in many TMA leadership positions, including the Board of Trustees since 2020, and chaired the board for the past year. She co-chaired the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force, and has been a member of the Educational Scholarship and Loan Committee. She served on the TMA Councils on Legislation and Socioeconomics as well as the Prior Authorization Task Force.
Dr. Monday is past president of the Harris County Medical Society. She chaired the Harris Health Care System Board of Trustees and serves on the Memorial Hermann Physician Network Board of Directors.
Dr. Monday and her partner of 30 years have 22-year-old twins. They share a love for travel, exploration, and political dialogue.
TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation, representing more than 60,000 physician and medical student members. It is located in Austin and has 110 component county medical societies around the state. TMA’s key objective since 1853 has been to improve the health of all Texans.
