Houston Chronicle Bay Area, Feb. 28, 2008 The Center to Eliminate Health Disparities at the University of Texas Medical Branch has named Jim Rodriguez as executive director of the Galveston 3-Share Plan health benefits program. Dr. Garland D. Anderson was named an executive vice president and provost; Karen Sexton will be interim executive vice president and chief executive officer of a new health system division; Dr. Mohamed Elghetany was named one of "America's Top Pathologists" by the Consumer Research Council of America; Dr. Sandra S. Hatch is the inaugural holder of the Irma Labardini Mendoza and Jesse Jesus Mendoza Chair in Radiation Oncology; and Professor Vicki S. Freeman has been elected as a fellow to the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry.