February Experts Available
American Heart Month
- Jason Wischmeyer, M.D., cardiologist, Texas Tech Physicians – Surgery
- Tom Tenner Jr., Ph.D., professor in the School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Neurosciences – impact of smoking and second-hand smoke to heart health
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
- Kelly Mitchell, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Eye Clinic
- Charles Stockwell, O.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Eye Clinic
International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month
- Yondell Masten, Ph.D., R.N., associate dean for outcomes management and evaluation in the School of Nursing, The Florence Thelma Hall Endowed Chair for Excellence in Women’s Health
- Lisa Dillard, R.N., BSN, Nurse-Family Partnership director at the Larry Combest Community Health & Wellness Center
- Charles Kilpatrick, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – OB-GYN
- Roxane Holt, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – OB-GYN
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
- Karen Esquibel, Ph.D., R.N., CPNP-PC, associate professor, School of Nursing
- Carrie Edwards, R.N., Ph.D., CA/CP SANE, assistant professor, sexual assault nurse examiner, School of Nursing
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
- Ron Cook, D.O., Texas Tech Physicians – Family Medicine and City of Lubbock health authority
Feb. 4 – World Cancer Day
- Candy Arentz, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Surgery – new study on breast cancer in Hispanic and Latina women
- Everardo Cobos, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Internal Medicine, Southwest Cancer & Research Center
- Patrick Reynolds, M.D., Ph.D., director of School of Medicine Cancer Center – childhood cancer
Feb. 7-14 – Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
- Vasum Peiris, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Pediatrics
Feb. 14 – National Donor Day (organ, tissue, marrow, platelet and blood donations)
- Claude B. Lobstein, director of the TTUHSC Willed Body Program
Feb. 24-March 2 – National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- Christie Hust, M.S., R.D., L.D., CDE, director of the Diabetes Education Center at the Larry Combest Community Health & Wellness Center
- Allison Kerin, M.S., R.D., L.D., director of employee wellness and recognition programs
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