Influential UTMB leader's sudden departure stuns colleagues and former students

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The sudden departure of Dr. Ben Raimer from the University of Texas Medical Branch, where...

Michael J. Davis, Director of Cardiology Digital Medical Services Department, bottom, and Ben G. Raimer, vice president of community outreach for The University Of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, diagnose a patient in Lexington, Kentucky, via satellite. 'We turned around health care delivery in a correctional system that is one of the largest in the Western world,' said Dr. Ben G.

A pediatrician who specializes in behavioral health, Raimer, 75, obtained both his master’s degree and doctorate of medicine from UTMB. He stayed to complete his residency and later opened a private pediatric practice in Galveston. “He went from being a pediatrician in a Galveston and Texas City office to basically advancing forward the entire community with outpatient clinics,” said Hay, who also served as a longtime president of the Galveston ISD school board.

A tenured professor in multiple departments, Raimer mentored UTMB students like Dr. Nathan Lee, now a pathologist in Alabama. Lee got to know Raimer through Hands and Feet Medical Mission, the student-led organization that provides free medical care to marginalized communities on the Texas-Mexico border. Raimer and his wife, Sharon, acted as faculty advisers.

Neither the UT system nor UTMB responded to questions about whether Raimer’s close ties with students violated any policies.Harris County child presumed to have monkeypox was a false positive, officials say

 

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