Dr. Adrian Billings is a full spectrum family medicine physician with Preventative Care Health Services (PCHS), a federally qualified health center, practicing in rural Alpine, Marfa and Presidio, Texas along the Texas-Mexico border. Dr. Billings currently serves as chief medical officer for PCHS, is Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-Permian Basin, and is a past chief of staff of Big Bend Regional Medical Center, a critical access hospital, in Alpine, Texas. Additionally, Dr. Billings served as Medical Director for the City of Presidio Emergency Medical Services. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved – an organization founded by alumni of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) as well as serving on the board of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians. He is also the director of the Texas Statewide Family Medicine Preceptorship Program. Dr. Billings served as Co-President of the Presidio-Ojinaga Binational Health Council which brings together US and Mexican healthcare officials together to discuss binational health problems that affect both sides of the United States and Mexico.
Dr. Billings was born on the Texas-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, is married with three boys, and speaks Spanish. Dr. Billings received a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University in 1993, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Pathology in 1998 and a Doctor of Medicine in 2003 from the University of Texas Medical Branch. In 1999, prior to his matriculation into medical school, Dr. Billings completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia where he worked in the Special Pathogens Branch investigating rodent-borne hantavirus infection. Dr. Billings attended family medicine residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Ft. Worth, Texas, serving his final year as chief resident. He then completed a surgical obstetrics fellowship also at John Peter Smith Hospital in 2007.
In 1999, Dr. Billings was awarded a National Health Service Corps Scholarship from the federal government and completed his service obligation in 2011 in rural Alpine, Texas. Dr. Billings has spoken nationally for the National Health Service Corps at Scholar and Loan Repayment conferences and has passionately shared his experience working with underserved populations in a frontier setting. In 2012 Dr. Billings was appointed by Secretary Kathleeen Sebelius to a 3-year term on the National Advisory Council of the National Health Service Corps. In 2014, Dr. Billings was invited to be and served as a private sector advisor with regards to health disparities for the US delegation to the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2017, Dr. Billings testified as an expert witness before the United States House of Representatives Sub-committee on Health for reauthorization of the $310 million dollar budget for the National Health Service Corps.
Dr. Billings has been recognized with teaching awards from both Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-Permian Basin and the University of Texas Medical Branch. In 2015, the Texas Academy of Family Physicians honored Dr. Billings with the 2015 Exemplary Teaching Award for his work with precepting medical students. In 2016, Dr. Billings was awarded the Exemplary Teaching Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 2017, Dr. Billings was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Alpine Independent School District.
Languages
- Spanish
Interests
- Breastfeeding
- Family medicine
- Labor/delivery
- Minority health
- Obstetrics
- Rural Health