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October 06, 2017

Surgeons provide free hernia screening

The TTUHSC-Amarillo Department of Surgery teamed up with Northwest Texas Hospital on Sept. 23 to provide no-cost hernia screenings for area patients. Surgeons Darren Peterson, M.D., and LaJohn Quigley, M.D., said more than 20 area people attended the event.

tags: Amarillo, Events, Texas Tech Physicians

October 03, 2017

Amarillo campus students named to President’s Select

President’s Select, a student ambassador program and honors organization comprised of the top TTUHSC undergraduate and graduate students, recently named its 2017-2018 representatives.

tags: Amarillo, School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Students

October 02, 2017

More medicines, new screening tools gaining traction in breast cancer treatment

New treatments and screening tools are enabling patients with Breast Cancer to show improvements in survival by about 10 months. Texas Tech Physicians share these cutting edge tools and how it is changing care for their patients.

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

September 22, 2017

Campus cook team brings home prize

Employees from multiple TTUHSC Amarillo campus departments formed a cooking team for the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce’s annual barbecue cook-off Sept. 14 in downtown Amarillo. The team also won the 2nd place prize for the its entry in the Corporate Brisket category.

tags: Amarillo

September 15, 2017

SimCentral cuts ribbon on new Amarillo building

Sixteen months after Texas Tech University System Board of Regents approved its construction on the TTUHSC campus in Amarillo, the new SimCentral building officially opened its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 15.

tags: Amarillo, Stories

August 31, 2017

GiRL Power 2017 Announced

The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health those who have 10- to 13-year-old daughters to GiRL Power 2017.

tags: Amarillo, Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health

August 30, 2017

ABC24WT Grant Extended

The Breast Center of Excellence learned Aug. 16 that funding for its ABC24WT program would be extended by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) for an additional three years.

tags: Amarillo, Breast Center of Excellence

August 30, 2017

WX App Available

Amarillo’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has partnered with Ping4Alerts! to provide citizens in Amarillo and throughout Potter and Randall counties with emergency notifications.

tags: Amarillo

August 30, 2017

One solar eclipse, two perspectives

TTUHSC staff, faculty and students witnessed a piece of history Aug. 21 by viewing the first total solar eclipse in the contiguous U.S. since 1979.

tags: Amarillo, Faculty, Students

August 29, 2017

Our HSC Provides Bottle Fillers in Amarillo

As the Our HSC campaign reaches its one-year anniversary at TTUHSC-Amarillo, the initial fruits of the employee-funded giving initiative have provided four water bottle refill stations across the campus.

tags: Amarillo, Development