File #: 15-576    Name: Appointment of Local Health Authority
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: 6/16/2015 Final action: 6/16/2015
Title: Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Council to Appoint Dr. Muriel Marshall as the Local Health Authority for the City of McKinney
Attachments: 1. Resolution
Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Council to Appoint Dr. Muriel Marshall as the Local Health Authority for the City of McKinney
 
Summary
 
COUNCIL GOAL:      Safe and Secure Community
 
MEETING DATE:      June 16, 2015
 
DEPARTMENT:       Fire
 
CONTACT:        Danny Kistner
      Fire Chief
 
 
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:  Approve Resolution
 
ITEM SUMMARY:  
·      The City of McKinney does not currently have an appointed Local Health Authority.
 
·      Dr. Muriel Marshall is the Health Authority for Collin County.  She is board certified in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Family Practice.  
 
·      Dr. Muriel Marshall, D.O., MPH & TM, DrPH, Physician, CCHCS Medical Director and Collin County Health Authority.
 
·      The term of appointment will be for two years ending June 16, 2017
 
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:  
 
·      Dr. Marshall received her Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Taylor University and a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree from Michigan State University.  She completed a rotating internship in Toledo, Ohio and a residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, Oregon.  Dr. Marshall then received a Master's in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (MPH & TM) and a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) in the area of International Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 
·      Dr. Marshall has spent several years practicing overseas.  She returned to the United States in 1993 and joined the faculty at the University of North Texas Health Science Center as Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health and the Department of Family Medicine at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine.  
 
·      After returning to the United States, she also served for 14 years with the Texas National Guard as Colonel and Chief of Aeromedical Services.  In that role, she successfully completed the United States Air Force Flight Surgeon Training, Air Command Staff College Distance Learning Program, and Air War College Distance Learning Program at Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
 
·      In January 2003, she joined the Collin County Health Care Services team as the department's Medical Director.
 
 
FINANCIAL SUMMARY:  N/A
 
BOARD OR COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: N/A