Houston Physician Elected to AMA Board of Trustees
CHICAGO - June 10, 2014 - Today, the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, announced the election of Russ Kridel, M.D., a facial plastic surgeon from Houston, Texas, to the Board of Trustees.
“I am honored to be elected to the AMA Board of Trustees,” said Dr. Kridel. “I hope to further the AMA’s goals of preserving the patient-physician relationship and improving the health of the nation.”
Dr. Kridel maintains a practice in Houston, where he is a facial plastic surgeon. He founded the Houston Face Foundation, and uses his surgical skills to help battered women and children who are victims of domestic violence. He also serves as a clinical professor and voluntary director of the Division of Facial Plastic Surgery at the UT Health Science Center in Houston.
Dr. Kridel is the chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health, a member of the Governing Council of the AMA Specialty and Service Society and a member of the AMA House of Delegates.
He has a distinguished record as a medical leader, having served as immediate past-president of the Harris County Medical Society. As a medical student, he was elected the national president of the Student American Medical Association. At the state level, Dr. Kridel chaired the professional liability committee of the Texas Medical Association, and served as president of its charitable foundation.
Dr. Kridel attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where he was awarded his M.D. He studied at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, where he did residencies in General Surgery and in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Dr. Kridel was nominated by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Texas Medical Association.
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