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April 11, 2019

TTUHSC’s Rahman Awarded CPRIT Grant Funding Expansion

The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) recently awarded a $2,430,998 grant to Rakhshanda Rahman, M.D., professor of breast surgical oncology at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and the founding executive director of the school’s multi-campus Breast Center of Excellence (BCE) that was established in 2009.

tags: Lubbock, News Releases, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians, TTUHSC in the News

April 09, 2019

Third Annual Update in Heart Failure Management

The May 4th event hosted by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is targeted to cardiovascular specialists as well as internal medicine, pediatric and primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and other health care professionals who focus on cardiovascular health.

tags: Lubbock, Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

March 05, 2019

Brain health – keeping us safe from disabling stroke

We use our brains to move our limbs, to communicate, to manage our emotions and to think about ourselves and the world around us. Any of these functions can be impaired by a stroke. In fact, stroke is the most common cause of these impairments and the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S.

tags: School of Medicine, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

February 20, 2019

Mentoring Others and Giving It His Best

As a 23-year-old college graduate in 1998, Dr. Felix Morales, sat next to astronaut, physician and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine alumnus Dr. Bernard Harris at an event to kick off a new premedical society. Morales was asked by Dr. Leo Vela from the Office of Diversity to help start this organization in order for the undergraduate campus to be more inclusive of all people who may want to go into the medical field.

tags: Alumni, Faculty, School of Medicine, Staff, Statline, Stories, Students, Texas Tech Physicians, TTUHSC in the News

February 01, 2019

Eleven Things You Didn’t Know About TTUHSC

Since 1969, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) has worked to provide quality education, research and patient care to West Texas. But there is a lot that people don’t know about TTUHSC. Here’s a list of eleven things you may not have known about our university.

tags: Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians, TTUHSC in the News

December 20, 2018

A Christmas Surprise for Hospital Patients

Employees from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology dressed up as Santa, Mrs. Claus and elves and gave out candy canes, blankets, headphones, playing cards, stuffed animals, word searches, coloring books and crayons and posed for pictures with patients, visitors and employees.

tags: Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians, TTUHSC in the News

December 01, 2018

Foot Soldiers for Foster Kids

Superior Healthplan presented the 2018 Foster Care Center of Excellence Award to TTUHSC physicians Patterson, Michal Pankratz, M.D., Todd Bell, M.D., and Rachel Anderson, M.D.

tags: School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

November 27, 2018

Patients, Colleagues Name TTUHSC’s Young as Physician of the Year

Rodney Young, M.D., regional chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the TTUHSC School of Medicine in Amarillo, has been named the Texas Academy of Family Physicians 2018 Texas Family Physician of the Year.

tags: Amarillo, Faculty, School of Medicine, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

November 01, 2018

TTUHSC Employee Helps Arizona Family Recover from Accident

Most people at TTUHSC know Julie Castle as the person primarily responsible for coordinating Department of Internal Medicine rotations for third- and fourth-year medical students in Amarillo.

tags: Amarillo, School of Medicine, Staff, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

October 19, 2018

New Research to Examine Effects of Vitamin E on Skeletal Muscle Health

Of the 13 essential vitamins, vitamin E is known to benefit vision, reproduction and a person's blood, brain and skin. Researchers at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) now are studying vitamin E to examine the effects of the vitamin in postmenopausal women with low muscle strength.

tags: Faculty, News Releases, Research, Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians, TTUHSC in the News

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