Oklahoma City doctor first Hispanic to head group – Doctor Tomas Patricio Owens (landed with only $6)
Tagged: Doctor, family, Oklahoma, PanamaPosted on: September 30th, 2007“He arrived in Oklahoma City from Panama with only $6 to his name.
Nearly 20 years later, Doctor Tomas Patricio Owens is the new president of the 1,200-member Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians.
The 44-year-old Owens is the first foreign-educated and first Hispanic leader of the state organization that was founded in 1948.”
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