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February 22, 2024

Almodóvar Receives NIH Grant to Study Pulmonary Hypertension in HIV Patients

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the NIH recently awarded Sharilyn Almodóvar, Ph.D., a four-year, $2.67 million grant to study how the HIV virus damages the normal interactions between different cell types in the lung arteries that lead to the condition.

tags: Research, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

February 21, 2024

TTUHSC Medical Student Part of NIH Research Team’s JAMA Publication

Luis Castro, a student at the TTUHSC School of Medicine and the Julia Jones Matthews School of Population and Public Health, was part of a research team whose work was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

tags: Research, School of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, Statline, Stories

February 21, 2024

NIH Grant to Aid Rumbaugh’s Biofilm Dispersal Research

Kendra Rumbaugh, Ph.D., a professor in the TTUHSC School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, was awarded a two-year, $434,938 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH.

tags: Research, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

February 20, 2024

TTUHSC Simulation Program Celebrates Reaccreditation

The TTUHSC Simulation Program has been granted reaccreditation in the areas of teaching/education and assessment by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the largest health care simulation accrediting body in the world.

tags: Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, School of Population and Public Health, Statline, Stories

February 15, 2024

TTUHSC School of Medicine Students Host Docs for a Day Minicamp

Docs for a Day is an interactive youth outreach activity with the mission to inform students about careers in medicine and inspire them by giving them a first-hand perspective into what medical school involves.

tags: Education, Feature Stories, Lubbock, School of Medicine, Statline

February 12, 2024

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Awarded Residency Program Funding

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) recently announced the GME Expansion Program award recipients for 2024-2025. The TTUHSC Amarillo campus was awarded $1.8 million in total.

tags: Amarillo, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

February 09, 2024

Love Yourself First

A psychiatrist in the TTUHSC School of Medicine explained that by making self-care a priority and embracing self-love, one unlocks a deeper sense of purpose, greater reliance and the capacity to truly connect with others.

tags: Mental Health Resource Hub, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

January 22, 2024

Faculty Women's Club Celebrates 50 Years

The FWC of the TTUHSC School of Medicine will hold a celebration dinner in honor of 50 years as an organization on February 7 at Skyviews restaurant in Lubbock.

tags: School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

January 18, 2024

TTUHSC School of Medicine Student Awarded 2024 STFM Foundation Student Scholarship

This highly competitive scholarship is awarded to some of the best and brightest medical students from across the country. Only 23 awards were given for 2024.

tags: Education, Permian Basin, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, Students

December 22, 2023

After More Than 50 Years of Service, Last Founding TTUHSC Faculty Member Retires to Teach How the Brain Learns

John Pelley, Ph.D., joined the Texas Tech School of Medicine at its inception in 1972 to teach biochemistry and begin a research program in biochemistry. After 51 years, this chapter of Pelley's career comes to a close.