September 2021 Archive

Fourth Annual Update in Heart Failure Management

  • By Melissa Whitfield
  • October 01, 2021

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) will host the “Fourth Annual Update in Heart Failure Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach” Oct. 2.

October Isn’t Just About the Boos, It’s a Time for the Boo-bies

  • By Catherine Jones, M.D.
  • September 30, 2021

It is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so Catherine Jones, M.D., takes a moment to review why this deserves our attention.

Campus Life

Team Member Spotlight | Clayton Womack, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

  • By Clara McKenney
  • September 28, 2021

Clayton Womack, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, shares his experiences as a TTUHSC team member.

TTUHSC’s Culberson Offers Healthy Aging Advice

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 24, 2021

John Culberson M.D., director of clinical geriatric programs for the Garrison Institute on Aging at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine, gives advice on healthy aging.

TTUHSC Selects Benton as Regional Dean, Jan & Ted Roden Endowed Chair for Permian Basin Campus

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 20, 2021

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) has announced Timothy J. Benton, M.D., FAAFP, as regional dean for the Permian Basin campus, effective Sept. 15. Benton, who served as the interim regional dean since May, also was named the Jan & Ted Roden Endowed Chair.

COVID-19 Vaccines for New and Expecting Mothers: What We Know

  • By Kate Gollahon
  • September 03, 2021

Teresa E. Baker, professor and regional chair of the TTUHSC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Amarillo, and Sireesha Y. Reddy, M.D., chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso, both spoke about COVID-19 and the vaccine for new and expecting moms.

Study Could Lead to New Treatments for Neuroblastoma

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 02, 2021

In previous research, a team of investigators led by C. Patrick Reynolds, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine Cancer Center, began studying the potential for using the ways cancer cells maintain telomeres — the protective caps on the end of chromosomes — to attack certain cancer cells.

TTUHSC Otolaryngologist Named a Rising Star by Texas Monthly

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 01, 2021

Winslo Idicula, M.D., an otolaryngologist for the Texas Tech Physicians Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) clinic in Lubbock and an assistant professor of otolaryngology for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine, recently was recognized as one of Texas Monthly’s 2021 Texas Super Doctors Rising Stars.

CPRIT Awards Grants to TTUHSC’s Reynolds, Putnam

  • By Mark Hendricks
  • September 01, 2021

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) on Aug. 18 awarded grants to a pair of researchers from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC).

Do you know TIME?

  • By John Griswold, M.D
  • August 31, 2021

John Griswold, M.D., is a Texas Tech Physicians surgeon, director for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Clinical Research Institute and medical director of the University Medical Center Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center.

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