Jean Edwards Holt, MD, MHA,  Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Sciences; Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Administration, Trinity University; 2001-2002 President, Southern Medical Association; and Sarah Freymann Fontenot, JD, RN,  Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Administration, Trinity University; co-author of The Law of Managed Care; previous instructor at Yale Medical School.

Jean Edwards Holt, MD, MHA  is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. She received her MD degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of Missouri at Columbia and is a member of the Missouri Medical Foundation. She served two years on active duty as a Major in the United States Army, and then joined the faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center Department of Ophthalmology. There, she taught cataract and eyelid surgery for seven years, serving as director of the Residency Training Program.

Holt has been in private practice in ophthalmology since 1985 and continues to serve as a clinical professor in the Department of Ophthalmology. She served as chief of ophthalmology at North Central Baptist Hospital for two years and chief of staff in 1994. Dr. Holt subsequently served two terms as president of the Medical Executive Board for the Baptist Health System and was a member of the Associate Board of Trustees. She served two years as the medical director and a board member for the Baptist Health Network, a physician/hospital MSO. She was a founding member of the San Antonio Women Physicians Network and has been president of the American Women's Medical Association San Antonio chapter.

Locally, she is a member of the Bexar County Medical Society Board of Directors, Texas Medical Association, and Texas Ophthalmology Association. Nationally, she is Past President for the Southern Medical Association (2001-2002), an associate examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology, a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and a member of the American College of Physician Executives. She has completed a Master in Healthcare Administration at Trinity University in Texas and currently is an adjunct professor for the department. Dr. Holt has written numerous articles, book chapters and manuals covering topics from ocular trauma to cataract surgical techniques, health care management and professional ethics. She is married to G. Richard Holt, MD, MPH, executive director of the American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery. The Holt's have two daughters, Allyson and Andrea, and one son, Adam.

Sarah Freymann Fontenot, BSN, JD is a lawyer and a nurse. Raised in New England, she attended the University of Vermont where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1978. For most of two years after graduation Ms. Fontenot was a nurse in the Neurosugical/Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, then moved to Dallas, Texas with her husband and continued nursing at Parkland Hospital in Oncology, Gynecology & Obstetrics. Prior to leaving Parkland she was the Staff Development Coordinator for 7 nursing units.

Upon moving back to New England while her husband completed his Pediatric Residency at Yale, Ms. Fontenot changed careers and attended the University of Connecticut School of Law. As a student she became the Legal Research Assistant for Angela R. Holder, LL.M., Counsel, Yale New Haven Hospital and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (Law) at Yale Medical School, assisted with the coordination of the University of Connecticut Moot Court Program and clerked at two litigation firms.

Ms. Fontenot graduated with her JD in 1990 and initially joined the medical malpractice defense division of a large firm in Connecticut. She left the firm as teaching evolved as her greatest focus; in 1991 she conducted a medical ethics seminar for internal medicine residents at the University of Connecticut School Of Medicine [which she has continued on an annual basis to the present] and assisted with the preparation and administration of the Professional Responsibility course for first year students at Yale Medical School. Ms. Fontenot also taught graduate students Hospital Law and Public Health Law in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale Medical School for two years before returning to Texas in 1994 with her family.

Now living in Fredericksburg, Texas with her husband and two sons, Ms. Fontenot is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Trinity University in San Antonio where she teaches graduate courses in Health Law; she was selected "Most Outstanding Professor" by the Trinity Executive MHA Class of 2000. She teaches extensively for the Texas Medical Association, Texas Medical Liability Trust and the Southern Medical Association. Ms. Fontenot has also taught with the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Medical Administrators and other professional groups.

Ms. Fontenot is a member of both the Texas and Connecticut Bars and has a health law consultation practice offering services to hospitals, physicians and other health care providers in Texas. She was a contributing author for the Legal Manual for Texas Nurses [1998] and in 1997 co-authored The Law Of Managed Care with Mr. Donald ["Rocky"]P. Wilcox, General Counsel at Texas Medical Association. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association and the Texas Bar Association. As a community member she currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Fredericksburg Center for Youth, the Campus Educational Improvement Committee of the Fredericksburg Middle School and was a founding officer of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Fredericksburg.