Rodolfo "Rudy" Mata is the new chairman of the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation board, and Maria Elena Flood has been named vice chairwoman.

The foundation is completing a master plan for a 140-acre medical complex anchored by the Texas Tech University medical school and University Medical Center.

Mata operates his own law firm. Flood is a retired assistant professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, and she helped get the Texas Tech medical school to El Paso.

Lisa Budtke, assistant treasurer at El Paso Electric, and Miguel Fernandez Jr., president of Transtelco, have been added to the board.

Vic Kolenc may be reached at vkolenc@elpasotimes.com; 546-6421.