Esmaeil Porsa

Esmaeil Porsa, MD, MPH, CCHP, executive vice president and chief strategy officer and medical director for Jail Health at Parkland Health & Hospital System, was recently appointed to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The commission establishes standards for the care and treatment of county prisoners, construction, maintenance and operations of county jails.

Porsa is a member and former trustee of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Academy of Correctional Medicine. Porsa received a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Our Lady of the Lake University, a Doctor of Medicine from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a Master of Public Health from The University of Texas Health Center at Houston.