2019 Distinguished Staff Awards + Years of Service

President Mitchell

Exceptional employees throughout TTUHSC were recognized for outstanding efforts and years of service at the Distinguished Staff Awards. The Distinguished Staff Awards highlight how employees are making an impact throughout TTUHSC to support its mission of higher education, patient care and research.

These awards recognize the following employees on each TTUHSC campus who have gone above and beyond in their many roles at TTUHSC. 

Distinguished Staff Awards: 

Quality Staff Award
Daniel Backlund – SON SimLife Center, Lubbock
Donna Chancellor – Physician Assistant Program, Midland
Victoria Flores – Covenant Branch Campus, Lubbock
Kandice Garner – Pharmacy Practice, Dallas
Adrianne Harell – Rural and Community Health, Lubbock
Matthew Pierce – SON SimLife Center, Lubbock
Allison Pritchard – SON, Lubbock
Joe Riojas – SON, Lubbock
Corrie Roper – TTP, Midland
Christina Smith – Covenant Branch Campus, Lubbock
Camille Stoddard – Pharmacy Practice, Amarillo
Randy Wallace – Physical Plant, Lubbock
 
Quality Supervisor Award

Distinguished Staff Awards


Amanda McKellar – Pediatrics, Amarillo
Pamela Dimarino – OB Gyn, Amarillo
Barbara Brandstatt – Pediatrics, Amarillo
Kayla Talbott – SON, Lubbock
 
Quality Team Award
Amarillo Pediatrics Team
Heather Errington – Dawn Larson – Tiffany Lomenzo
Gayla Preble – Holy Rinehart
 
Permian Basin Internal Medicine Team
Lashette Crisp – Annette Guilamo – Ariel Herrera – Eliana Milazzo- Carlos Perez
      Linda Perez – Casie Reyes – Anselmo Romero – Corrie Roper
Debbie Rybolt – Lorena Tarin – Manuela Urquizo
 
President’s Award of Excellence
Teresa Carlisle – SOP Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Amarillo
Brian Nordstrom – Program Application Web Development Services, Lubbock
 
Chancellor’s Award of Excellence
Ava Walker – SON Administration, Abilene


Years of Service Awards: 

Abilene 

Five Years of Service

Stacie K. Alvarez, MSN, RN
April Beckling
Rachel Chapman, MSN, RN
Aaron Duebner, MSN, RN, CNE
Rachel Leucht
Rebecca Mahan, Pharm.D., BCGP, BCACP
Molly Rake
Sally Short
Kayley Simmons, Pharm.D., BCACP,BC-ADM
Gayle Stegall, MSN, RN, CNE
Brian Terrell, Pharm.D., BCACP
Kathryn Whitcomb, DNP, RN, CHSE
Robyn Wood
 
Ten Years of Service
Jenny Humphrey
Randi King
Molly Lee, MSN, RN
Young Lee, Pharm.D.
 
Fifteen Years of Service 
Devin B. Lowe, Ph.D.
 
Twenty Years of Service 
Shirley O’Rear


Amarillo

Five Years of Service
Mohammed Al-Obaide
Sean Anderson
Rachel  Anderson
Christine Andrews
George Barnett
Rachel Basinger
Mattie Been
Casey Booth
Sharon Brewer
Patti Conner
Palika Datta
William Dyer II
Heather Errington
Courtney Flowers
Michael Frost
Leticia Gonzales
Nathan Hansen
Jaclyn Inkhamheng
Jory Law
Sandra Lovato
Alison Lunsford
Meghan Marnell
Patricia McMillon
Debbie Morrison
Patricia McMillon
Debbie Morrison
Teri Murphy
Christi Olguin
Craig Perrien
Angela Post
Krystal Reynaga
Guadalupe Rivera De Rodriguez
Brian Schneider
Gena Spruill
Galena Wertz
John Wilson
Rebecca Young
 
Ten Years of Service
Patrick Allgood
Amy Brown
Michelle Carty
Theresa Fairchild
Johnnie Faircloth
Amanda Griffin
Ellen Hampsten
Kendall Harris
Kimberly Hay
Angela Huang
Vardan Karamyan
Susan King
Teddie Kirk
Joni Lara
Debra Lee
Maribel Marinelarena
J. Scott Milton
Lajohn Quigley
Russell Snyder
Linda Sparks
 
Fifteen Years of Service
Pamela Irvin
Ronetta Mills
Robbi Rivers
Curtis Sarah
Katherine Thomas
 
Twenty Years of Service
Debbie Accord
Paula Breeding
Mark Haase
Dexter Harper
Angela Hartfelder
Dulcina Hurtado
Marty Stephens
Amador Villasenor
 
Thirty-five Years of Service
Deborah Cain
Deborah Zachry
 
40 years
Mubariz Naqvi 


Dallas

Five Years of Service
Kalin Clifford
Sarah Innis 


Lubbock 

Ten Years of Service
Linda Anderson
Sandy Bagwell
Khadija Bakrim
Donna Balko
Dina Barhorst
Yvonne Bengoa
Steven Brooks
Kellie Bruce
Kendra Burris
Jacob Caballero
Aricka Cano
Lisa Castillo
Mikel Coale

Service Awards

Michael Cordes
Cathye Davis
Cynthia Deanda
Melissa Ditto
Susan Doctolero-Malagayo
Julie Ellis
TheresaFairchild
Mariana Fiori
Rayma Gonzales
Christine Gresham
Heather Griffin
Jerry Grimes
Matthew Grisham
Lan Guan
LaNeigh Harkness
Jamie Haynes
Andra Headley
Alejandro Hernandez
Linda Hidalgo
Jill Holden
Allana Holmes
Christy Howard
Michaela Jansen
Min Kang
Adaobi Kanu
Thivakorn Kasemsri
Gurvinder Kaur
Angela Knight
Amanda Knight
Rakhshanda Layeequr Rahman
Fatma Levent
Margie Lopez
Barry Maurer
Susan McBride
Abby McEwen
Thomas McGill
Leslie Medina
Lucila Medrano
Alyson Mesa
Leon Mojica
Leah Moore
Sheryl Moore
Felix Morales
Berta Moreno
Christy Morrison
Sharen Muniz
Dusty Murley
Laszlo Nagy
Akash Pandhare
Sandy Ramirez
Charles Reynolds
Sylvia Riojas
Mary Rogge
Irene Salinas
Betty Sharron Scoggin
Chanda Sethi-Dihenia
Evelyn Silvas
Cynthia Smith
Laurie Stelter
Nancy Swinford
James Tarbox
Staci Thomas
Susan Thompson
Brenda Threadgill
Carlos Torres
Jacqie Vargas
Dr. Amanda Veesart
Deborah Villarreal
Dong Wang
Patricia Wilson
Edward Yeomans
Weidong Zhang
 
Fifteen Years of Service
Cathy H. Allen
Leticia Almaguer
Steven Branham
Staci Brown
Rosie Clevenger
Sally Coates
Nelda Cruz
Sylvia Cuevas
Nicholas DCunha
Cornelia de Riese
Deena Dick
Sharmila Dissanaike
Nicholas Ervin
Amy Faltinek
Deborah Findley
Pamela Frazier
Leticia Garcia
Shalonda Garcia
John Haynes
Angelia Heare
Anna Herring
James Hildebrand
Barbara Holder
Charleen Huffhines
Ebtesam Islam
Amber Lester
Ken Marley
Stacy Martin
Craig McMahan
Amanda McSween
Kelly Mitchell
Jennifer Mitchell
Erica Morin
Letitia Munoz
Jennifer Phy
Robert Polk
Roseanna Popp
Lisa Powell
Leigh Ann Reel
Erica Romero
Katy Sears
Cynthia Tiongco
Ina Urbatsch
Albert Urista
Ruth Velasquez
Irfan Warraich
Teri West
Andy Woods
 
Twenty Years of Service
Maria Dolores Aceves-Parrish
Susan Andersen
Barbara Ballew
Fabian Blanco
Ramiro Campos
Mike Carpenter
David Cox
Lea Davidson
Martha Escamilla
Rita Jo Fitzgerald
Leandra Flores
Judy Ford
Christine Gaitan
Martha Gallagher
Kerry Gilbert
Irma Gomez
Ruben Gonzales
Ericka Hendrix
Anthony Hewetson
Brian Irons
Rhonda Isome
DouglasLappe
Andrea Lastoka
Gloria Martinez
Everett McArthur
Kathleen McPherson
Donna Owen
Sharma Prabhakar
Patricia Salazar
Isavel Sammons
Betty Sanders
Charles Seifert
Rebecca Sleeper Irons
Randy Smith
Larry Starr
Paula Strong
Lance Taylor
Maria Magdalena Torres
Lora Turpin
Alice Vasquez
Tonya Wimmer Macias
Bill Woodard
 
Twenty-five Years of Service
Mae L. Chambers
Gracie D Cowan
Kathee Depp
Peggy J. Edwards
Melissa Metz
Sonia Lynn Moore
Nelly Moralez
James Nye
BarbaraOliver
Vicki Rutledge-Helton
Barbara Sawyer
Lisa Teutsch
Daniel Webster
Sandra Whisner
Linda Wolfe
 
Thirty Years of Service
Joe Bilbro
Joe Ferrer
Pam Gardner
Emily Merrill
Esther M. Salazar
Chip Shaw
Charles Shears
Paula Simpson
 
Thirty-five Years of Service
Linda Saenz
 
Forty Years of Service
Thomas Tenner


Permian Basin 

Five Years of Service 

Myra Alvarez
Joy Anderson
Liliana Andrade
Adrian Billings
Karina Camacho
Gracie Carrasco
Mariela Castillo
Michelle Cruz
Tara Deaver
Sylvia DeLoera
Lisset Escontrias
Terry Hemphill
Scott Jensen
Ashley Leech
Alma Morales
Elizabet Morales
Ailena Mulkey
Elisa O’Con
Linda Perez
Rebekah Redfern
Corrie Roper
Amber Ruiz
Sarah Shellenberger
Ivy Tavarez
Manuela Urquizo
Omero Valenzuela
Jessica Zuniga

Ten Years of Service 

Michael Calloway
Gilberto Fuentez
Carlos Garcia
Neeraj Kumar
Melissa Leal
Yolanda Maldonado
Kelly Moseley
Stephanie Moses
Elizabeth Lisa Platner
Travis Real
Veronica Sandoval
Terry Thomason

Fifteen Years of Service

Samuel Chanjaplammootil
Bradley Erwin
Graciela Flores
Evangelina Santiago

Twenty Years of Service 

Terry Hurt
Sheryl Redman  

Twenty-five Years of Service 

 Rudy Perez

Thirty Years of Service 

Cindy Shumard-Kager

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