Donald “Rocky” P. Wilcox, JD, an Air Force veteran, served in the American Medical Association (AMA) General Counsel’s office for 6 years, and then for almost 43 years, served as vice president and general counsel for the Texas Medical Association in Austin. He retired from the TMA in June,1022, and is now in private practice serving as counsel to The Physicians Foundation, one of the entities created out of two of the RICO civil suit settlements. Rocky is currently working with several other medical organizations, as well. For many years he chaired the Physician Advocacy Liaison Committee of the Physician Advocacy Institute, another product of the RICO civil suit litigation. Working with outside counsel, he represented the TMA as it developed and supported the class action civil RICO litigation against the 10 major health insurance companies in the United States.

Rocky has written more than 100 articles for Texas Medicine and other health care publications. He taught at The University of Texas (UT) School of Public Health program at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and at UT Austin as well as the University of Houston MBA Program for Physicians. He represented the TMA in its successful 2003 Texas tort reforms.

He has chaired the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and received The Distinguished Service Award for Exceptional Leadership from that Section. He is a past chair of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel and the Litigation Center of the AMA and State Medical Societies. For many years he chaired the Physician Advocacy Liaison Committee of the Physician Advocacy Institute. Rocky also was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award for a Medical Society Executive from the American Medical Association.