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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