Schade-Hill Public Policy Pain Champion Award

The Schade-Hill Public Policy Award is an annual award created by the Texas Pain Society to recognize the outstanding work of an individual or group of individuals who have helped make positive changes in the world of pain medicine. This award -- presented to an individual each year during the TPS Annual Meeting -- is inspired by the countless hours that Drs. C.M. Schade and Stratton Hill dedicated to the Texas Pain Society to help craft the pain medicine laws that govern Texas today. 

 


 2025 Schade-Hill Public Policy Pain Champion Award Winner

Representative Richard Raymond

Richard Peña Raymond was born in Alice, Texas and raised in Benavides, Texas (population 1,900) graduating from the high school there.

He got involved in politics as a very young man fighting political corruption in his home county of Duval.

Representative Raymond received a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in Government and minoring in History. He later received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.


Past Winners

October 2024
October 2023

October 2022
October 2021
October 2019
October 2019
November 2018
October 2017
October 2017
October 2016
October 2015 
October 2014 
October 2013
November 2012

Clayton Stewart
Stefani Turner
Representative Tom Oliverson, MD
Sherif Z. Zaafran, M.D 
Representative J.D. Sheffield, DO 
"Patient Advocate Award" Representative John Zerwas, MD
Sherif Zaafran, MD
David Teuscher, MD
Representative Cindy Burkett
Representative Kenneth Sheets 
Senator Charles Schwertner and Mari Robinson, JD
Gay Dodson, R.Ph - Executive Director of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy
Division of Workers Compensation Staff 
Johnny Hatcher, GM, Regulatory Compliance and Security