AUSTIN, TX - (July 29, 2010) - Governor Perry has appointed Dr. Robert Vezzetti, a physician with the emergency department at Dell Children's Medical Center's, a member of the Seton Family of Hospitals, to the Advisory Council on Emergency Medical Services.
Dr. Vezzetti joins two other appointed members who will serve on the council until Jan. 1, 2016. The council helps federal, state and local agencies develop and implement an integrated, statewide program for emergency medical services.
Dr. Vezzetti, a physician with Emergency Service
Partners, is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
American College of Emergency Physicians, Texas Pediatrics
Society and Texas Medical Association. He is also a member of
the Travis County Medical Society, Pediatric Alliance of
Central Texas, and Dell Children's Medical Center Committee for
Quality Improvement and Scripting Committee. Dr. Vezzetti
received a bachelor's degree from Loyola University and a
medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science
Center at San Antonio. He completed his general pediatrics
residency at Children's Hospital of Austin, and completed the
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Fairfax Hospital for
Children in Virginia.