Business Leadership Week Preview Highlight:
Keynote Speaker Dr. Octavio Martinez, Jr.
Thursday, February 20th
Keynote Speaker Dr. Octavio Martinez, Jr.
Thursday, February 20th
3:30 p.m.
119 McCoy Hall
A native Texan and licensed
psychiatrist, Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr. is the fifth executive director and
the first Hispanic to lead the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health since its
creation in 1940. As chief executive officer, he oversees the vision, mission,
goals, strategic planning and day-to-day operations of the foundation. He is an
associate vice president of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
and a clinical professor at the School of Social Work at The University of
Texas at Austin. He is also an adjunct professor of psychiatry at The
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He currently serves
on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Mental Health Workforce for
Geriatric Populations. He is on the board of the National Hispanic Council on
Aging. He is a commissioner on the Supreme Court of Texas Permanent Judicial
Commission for Children, Youth and Families and a member of the University of
Texas-University Charter School Advisory Board. From 2002 to 2006 he served as
a Special Emphasis Panel Member for the National Institutes of Health, National
Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Martinez is licensed to
practice medicine in Texas and North Carolina and is board certified. He has a
master’s degree in public health from Harvard University’s School of Public
Health, a doctorate in medicine from Baylor College of Medicine, and master’s
and bachelor’s degrees in business administration with a concentration in
finance from The University of Texas at Austin. He also completed the
Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at
Harvard Medical School.
A special thank you to Common Experience for
their funding donation and to the Student Organizations Council (SOC) at Texas
State University for sponsoring the McCoy College Ambassadors as they host the
Keynote Speaker event.
