TEMPLE, Texas (January 12, 2009) -- Glen R. Couchman, M.D. has accepted a new role as Associate System Chief Medical Officer for Scott & White Healthcare, effective immediately. As a result of his new position, Dr. Couchman is stepping down as Chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine, which he held since 2001.

Beginning this month, Michael D. Reis, M.D., will serve as Interim Chair of the department and Terry Rascoe, M.D., will expand his duties to become the Vice Chair.

Dr. Reis currently is the Associate Regional Chief Medical Officer for Scott & White's Northern Regional Clinics and holds the faculty rank of Assistant Professor. Dr. Reis received his bachelor's degree in bioengineering from Texas A&M University in 1980 and an M.D. degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1984. He completed his residency training in family practice at the University of Texas at Houston's Memorial Southwest Hospital and joined Scott & White in 1987.

Dr. Rascoe is the Medical Director for the division of Family Medicine at the Northside Family Medicine Clinic and is an Assistant Professor in the department. He completed his undergraduate degree at Baylor University in 1981 and received his M.D. from the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in 1985. Dr. Rascoe has been a Scott & White physician since 1988.