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

• Kelly Mitchell, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Eye Clinic


• Charles Stockwell, O.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Eye Clinic

• 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

• 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

• Ron Cook, D.O., Texas Tech Physicians – Family Medicine and City of Lubbock health authority

• 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

• Vasum Peiris, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians – Pediatrics

• Claude B. Lobstein, director of the TTUHSC Willed Body Program

• 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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