The Catalyst Issue 4 | Fall 2009 | Page 35

Lianne Marks, MD, PhD, is an internist at Scott & White Healthcare - Round Rock. “Taking care of our mental state is tied into our physical health, too.” — Dr. Marks find the right program,” she says. “We try to help patients determine how they can do things to facilitate their own health.” Reaching out Dr. Marks is involved with an initiative sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its ACHIEVE communities (Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental changE) develop and implement policy, systems and environmental change strategies that can help prevent or manage health risk factors for heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, obesity and arthritis. Williamson is one of 53 counties in the country currently selected for funding. Specific activities will be directed toward red