March Experts Available
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• Everardo Cobos, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians — Internal Medicine
National Eye Donor Month
• Gregory Oliver, certified tissue bank specialist and executive director of Great
Plains Lions Eye Bank and Texas Tech Physicians — Eye Clinic
National Endometriosis Awareness Month
• Ahsan Farooqi, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians — OB-GYN
National Kidney Month
• Sharma Prabhakar, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians — Internal Medicine
National Nutrition Month
• 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
• Kathy Chauncey, Ph.D., RD, Texas Tech Physicians — Family Medicine
Save Your Vision Month
• Robert Staples, O.D., Texas Tech Physicians — Eye Clinic
Spring Break
• Binge drinking: Gregory Schrimsher, Ph.D., Giles C. McCrary Endowed Chair in Addiction
Medicine
• Safe travel: Ron Warner, Ph.D., director of Travel Medicine Clinic for Texas Tech
Physicians — Family Medicine
March 10 – National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• 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
March 11-17 – Brain Awareness Week
• Bradley Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Texas Tech Physicians — Neurology
March 26 – American Diabetes Alert Day
• Christie Hust, M.S., R.D., L.D., CDE, director of the Diabetes Education Center
at the Larry Combest Community Health & Wellness Center
• Jannette Dufour, Ph.D., associate professor and associate dean for research, School
of Medicine Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry
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