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School of Medicine Archive

September 28, 2021

Team Member Spotlight | Clayton Womack, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

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

tags: Faculty, General, Lubbock, Miscellaneous, School of Medicine, Staff, Stories, Team Member Spotlight, Values

September 24, 2021

TTUHSC’s Culberson Offers Healthy Aging Advice

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.

tags: Garrison Institute on Aging, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, Texas Tech Physicians

September 20, 2021

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

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.

tags: Permian Basin, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, TTUHSC in the News

September 03, 2021

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

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.

tags: COVID-19, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

September 02, 2021

Study Could Lead to New Treatments for Neuroblastoma

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.

tags: Research, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, TTUHSC in the News

September 01, 2021

TTUHSC Otolaryngologist Named a Rising Star by Texas Monthly

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.

tags: School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

September 01, 2021

CPRIT Awards Grants to TTUHSC’s Reynolds, Putnam

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).

tags: Dallas, Lubbock, School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Statline, Stories

August 31, 2021

Do you know TIME?

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.

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

August 24, 2021

To the Unvaccinated, I Hear You But…

Steven L. Berk, MD, Dean of TTUHSC's School of Medicine, speaks to those hesitant to get a COVID vaccine.

tags: School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

August 23, 2021

Back to School Can Be Exciting and Stressful for Children

For children who may be apprehensive about the new school year, Sarah Mallard Wakefield, M.D., suggests several steps parents can take to ease their child’s concerns.