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Richard Garcia
9/22/1941 -
6/6/2006 |
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- Richard A. Garcia
Jr., assistant vice president for South Texas programs at
the University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio. Garcia spent three decades expanding health
opportunities for his beloved South Texas Border Region.
An early champion of outreach services through the Area
Health Education Centers he established, Garcia left a
legacy that UT Health Science Center officials say touched
the lives of thousands of health care professionals,
students, educators and administrators.
UT Health Science Center President Dr. Franciso Cigarroa says Garcia was
instrumental in the university's program development in
Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg.
That work resulted in the establishment of the Health
Science Center Laredo Campus Extension and the Health
Science Center Regional Academic Health Center campuses in
Harlingen and Edinburg.
"Richard Garcia embodied all that is good in the health care
professions," Cigarroa says. "His visionary leadership, his
success in establishing programs throughout the region, and
his good-natured charm that made people want to work with
him and each other all contributed to a remarkable career.
"We will not see his like again soon," Cigarroa continues.
"We will never forget the impact he had on this state, and
on those who knew him personally."
After serving his nation in the U.S. Marine Corps, Garcia
received a bachelor of science degree, from St. Mary's
University and a master of science degree in microbiology,
from the University of the Incarnate Word. Garcia would
later receive two other graduate degrees, a master of health
care administration degree from Southwest Texas State
University and a master of public health degree from The
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School
of Public Health.
Excerpt from the San Antonio Business Journal -
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