December 2016 Archive

Poison Center Achieves Reaccreditation

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • December 20, 2016

The Texas Panhandle Poison Center, hosted by the TTUHSC School of Pharmacy in Amarillo, has achieved re-accreditation through 2023 from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

CPRIT grant renewed for pediatric brain cancer research at TTUHSC in Amarillo

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • December 09, 2016

Dr. Kalkunte Srivenugopal’s research at the School of Pharmacy in Amarillo received a boost in November when CPRIT named him a recipient of an Individual Investigator Research Award for Cancer in Children and Adolescents.

National Memory Screening Day a success

  • By Justin Patterson
  • December 01, 2016

TTUHSC hosted National Memory Screening Day Nov. 15 in the first-floor lobby of the School of Medicine.

Grad student awarded travel scholarship

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • December 01, 2016

A. G. M. Mostofa, a Ph.D. candidate in Amarillo, received a Graduate Student Travel Award from the American Association of Bangladeshi Pharmaceutical Scientists (AABPS).

Amarillo campus salutes its Veterans

  • By Justin Patterson
  • December 01, 2016

To commemorate Veteran’s Day on Nov. 11, some of the TTUHSC veterans on the Amarillo campus were recognized for their service to our country.

TTUHSC Program Helping Local Area Meet National ‘80% by 2018’ Goals

  • By Jennifer Nanz
  • December 01, 2016

TTUHSC surgical oncologist Subhasis Misra, M.D., hosted a group of state and local leaders who pledged their support for the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s “80% by 2018” initiative that seeks to regularly screen 80 percent of adults aged 50 and older for colorectal cancer by 2018.

Your Life, Our Purpose campaign comes to Amarillo campus

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • December 01, 2016

TTUHSC President Tedd L. Mitchell, M.D., was on the Amarillo campus Nov. 18 to announce the kickoff of TTUHSC’s Your Life, Our Purpose campaign.

TTUHSC teams make WISE presentations

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • December 01, 2016

Four teams comprised of students and alumni from the School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine shared their passion for science and medicine with local middle school and high school girls Nov. 14 at the 2016 Women in Science Endeavors (WISE) Symposium.

ELF Committee begins holiday effort with luncheon, salsa contest

  • By Kelly Podzemny
  • December 01, 2016

In an effort to brighten the upcoming holiday season for a group of TTUHSC families who need assistance, the Employee Love Fund (ELF) committee hosted its Holiday Kick-Off Luncheon Nov. 17 in the Harrington Auditorium.

Internal Medicine students compete and present at meeting

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • December 01, 2016

The Department of Internal Medicine’s Medical Jeopardy Team competed in the Doctors Dilemma competition Nov. 4-6 at the American College of Physicians’ Texas chapter meeting in Houston.

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