H.R. No. 1763



R E S O L U T I O N
	WHEREAS, With the passing on October 27, 2002, of Dr. James 
Watson Simpson, the State of Texas and the nation lost a 
distinguished leader in the field of pediatric cardiology whose 
vision and expertise saved the lives of countless children; and
	WHEREAS, A Corpus Christi native, Dr. Simpson served as 
director of pediatric cardiology at Driscoll Children's Hospital in 
Corpus Christi, and in 1970 he fulfilled a long-held dream when he 
established the Children's Heart Program of South Texas; its mobile 
team travels to outlying areas around the state to treat indigent 
children with heart disease and heart defects, and no child who 
needed the program's services has ever been turned away in the three 
decades that have passed since its founding; today known as The 
Children's Heart and Health Institute of Texas, the program has 
grown from seven initial medical clinics to locations in 35 South 
Texas counties; and
	WHEREAS, Recognized with many well-deserved honors for his 
immense contributions to medicine, this remarkable physician was 
the namesake for the James Simpson Cardiac Catheterization 
Laboratory at Driscoll Children's Hospital;  and
	WHEREAS, Dr. James Simpson served as an inspiration to all 
who were privileged to know him, and his work lives on in the life of 
every child he treated and saved; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas 
Legislature hereby pay tribute to the memory of the late James 
Watson Simpson, M.D., a true Texas hero and humanitarian; and, be it 
further
	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be 
prepared for the members of his family and that when the Texas House 
of Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Dr. 
James Simpson.

                                                                          Capelo

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                                                       Speaker of the House     

	I certify that H.R. No. 1763 was unanimously adopted by a 
rising vote of the House on May 31, 2003.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House