Felix Hull, MD joined the UIWSOM faculty as a SIGS facilitator in July 2021 after he retired from an Obstetrics & Gynecology and Medical Hypnosis-MBSR practice in Austin, Texas. In addition, he was a clinical assistant professor at both the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School’s Department of Women’s Health and at the Texas A&M School of Medicine at Round Rock in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department.
Since joining UIWSOM, Dr. Hull has become a faculty mentor for the Mission San Jose Collegium, a UIW Certified FLIGHT Mentor for the UIW School for Health Professions and the School of Osteopathic Medicine, and received Level 1 certification in Compassionate Integrity Training from the UIW Mission & Ministry and the Center for Compassion, Integrity, and Secular Ethics at Life University. He also serves as mentor for numerous SOM students, especially several interested in OB/GYN.
Dr. Hull was also certified by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis in 1994. He formally established a complementary practice-Integrative Medicine In Texas or I’M*IT in 2014. In addition to lecturing and teaching OB/GYN topics and clinical medicine to medical students and residents, he has taught self-hypnosis and mindfulness-based stress reduction for mind-body health, self-care, well-being, emotional resiliency, amplified exam performance and success in life and career to medical personnel and graduate students.
In 2015, Dr. Hull received the Texas Medical Association’s 2015 Silver-Level award for “Excellence in Academic Medicine” from the TMA’s Council on Medical Education and the Subcommittee for Academic Physicians. The award recognized his “commitment to academic medicine in teaching and service to organized medicine” while he was a preceptor and clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston’s Obstetrics and Gynecology department.
For eighteen years, Dr. Hull served as representative for the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Texas Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, to both the Inter-Specialty Society Committee of the Texas Medical Association and the TMA House of Delegates. Dr. Hull served on numerous committees in the Travis County Medical Society and at the St. David’s Medical Center in Austin. He served four years as chair of the St. David’s Medical Center OB/GYN department and four years on the Medical Executive Committee.
He attended Baylor College of Medicine in Houston for medical school and his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency. After residency completion, Dr. Hull moved to Austin and established his private practice. He delivered more than 9,300 babies during his private practice career.
- M.D., Baylor College of Medicine