Felix Hull, MD, joined the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine faculty as a SIGS facilitator in July 2021. Prior to joining UIWSOM, he practiced Obstetrics & Gynecology and Medical Hypnosis in Austin, Texas. In addition, he was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School in the Department of Women’s Health and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University 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 mentors many UIWSOM students, especially several interested in OB/GYN.
Dr. Hull received certification and recertifications by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He used hypnotic anesthesia in his medical practice and taught self-hypnosis to obstetrical patients for labor analgesia. Following this special area of interest, he formally established a Mind-Body Health practice —Integrative Medicine In Texas or IMIT in 2014. He teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and self-hypnosis for Mind-Body health, self-care, well-being, emotional resiliency and amplified exam performance.
In 2015, Dr. Hull received the Texas Medical Association’s 2015 Silver-Level award for "Excellence in Academic Medicine." The award was 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 senior medical student preceptor and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston’s Obstetrics and Gynecology department.
For 18 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 at the Texas Medical Association, 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’s Obstetrics & Gynecology department and four years on the Medical Executive Committee.
He graduated medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center. He completed his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at the Baylor College of Medicine hospitals in Houston. After residency completion, Dr. Hull moved to Austin and established his private practice. He started his medical teaching career soon thereafter. He really enjoyed Obstetrics and delivered more than 9,300 babies during his private practice career.
- MD, Baylor College of Medicine