January 2021 Archive

TTUHSC’s Dissanaike Appointed to Texas Medical Board District Three Review Committee

  • By Kate Gollahon
  • January 15, 2021

Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Department of Surgery Chair Sharmila Dissanaike, M.D., to the Texas Medical Board District Three Review Committee. Dissanaike holds this appointment until the end of her term on January 15, 2026.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Announces New Rural Telehealth Initiative’s Telehealth Broadband Pilot Program

  • By Suzanna Cisneros
  • January 11, 2021

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new Rural Telehealth Initiative’s Telehealth Broadband Pilot Program. TTUHSC will serve as a community site and state partner.

Program Director Takes Texas-sized Role in Leadership

  • By David Mitchell, AAFP News
  • January 08, 2021

After completing his training at the family medicine residency at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center of the Permian Basin in 2012, Okwuwa stayed in Odessa, Texas, as faculty and became the residency’s program director in 2017.

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