I regard myself as a partially rehabilitated lobbyist and now am a public affairs consultant. In a previous incarnation, I coordinated political, legislative, legal and regulatory matters for the 36,000-member Texas Medical Association as their Vice President for Public Policy and Director of Public Affairs.

My company, Kimble Public Affairs, specializes in health care policy and political strategy, with special emphasis on physicians’ rights. We are retained by a number of state and national medical organizations, national health care industry corporations and litigation teams engaged on physicians’ behalf.

I regularly advise state and national office holders and political candidates on health care policy and am often invited to lecture at universities, medical schools and national conferences across the country on the politics of health care policy.

I write a monthly column on health care politics for DocTalk, a regional trade magazine, and ghost write extensively for senior corporate managers, physician leaders, litigators, public officials, and industry analysts.

Nothing on this blog is ghost written- it’s all my personal opinion, based on my knowledge and experience.

Although I’m a 5th generation Texan, I was educated in Oklahoma- and that’s not an oxymoron.

I am an Eagle Scout, but apart from that I have no interesting hobbies, no bad personal habits, and no close relatives named ‘Bubba’. What I do have is an 11-month-old son, whose nickname is most emphatically not Bubba, Sonny, or any other name ending in a vowel.