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Answering an Ad for a New Team

February 22, 2019

Answering an Ad for a New Team

Dr. Tom Tenner walked into the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center for the first time April 1, 1978 on what he calls an auspicious day. Thinking back, he stopped to calculate the number of times he has walked into the doors of this university. Subtracting holidays, weekends, sick days and vacations over the past 41 years, he figured — about 9,000 times.

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tags: Faculty, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

Mentoring Others and Giving It His Best

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.

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

TTUHSC Team Advances in Clinical Research Challenge

February 15, 2019

TTUHSC Team Advances in Clinical Research Challenge

Second-year School of Pharmacy students Princy John, Leia Gaddis and Ahmaya Mustafa took home first place in the local round of the American Colleges of Clinical Pharmacy’s (ACCP) 2019 Clinical Research Challenge.

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tags: Amarillo, School of Pharmacy, Stories, Students

Graduate Students Invited to Make Presentations, Attend Meetings

February 08, 2019

Graduate Students Invited to Make Presentations, Attend Meetings

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has invited Sharavan Ramachandran and Nehal Gupta, graduate students from the School of Pharmacy’s Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (GPPS), to make oral and poster presentations April 6-9 in Orlando, Florida during ASBMB’s Experimental Biology Meeting and Spotlight Session.

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tags: Amarillo, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Stories, Students

Rising to a Need for Health Care

February 07, 2019

Rising to a Need for Health Care

In 1969, the 61st Texas Legislature passed a bill creating the Texas Tech University School of Medicine that was signed by Gov. Preston Smith. The establishment of this institution was not without its challenges and controversies.

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tags: School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

February 07, 2019

TTUHSC Earns Silver Designation as a Military Friendly® School

VIQTORY, a company founded to help veterans transition into civilian life, named Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) to their 2019-2020 list of Military Friendly® Schools and gave TTUHSC a Silver Military Friendly® designation.

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tags: Statline, Stories

Kicking off Fifty Years

February 07, 2019

Kicking off Fifty Years

Former Gov. Preston Smith had a vision of providing more physicians to the West Texas area. Now 50 years later, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) celebrated the milestone beginning with a 50th Anniversary announcement.

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tags: School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

TTU System Honors Top Faculty Members with Chancellor’s Council Awards

February 07, 2019

TTU System Honors Top Faculty Members with Chancellor’s Council Awards

Throughout the month of January, Texas Tech University System Chancellor Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell recognized 13 faculty members from the TTU System’s four institutions as recipients of the 2019 Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards. These awards recognize excellence in academics and research, and are the most prestigious honors given to faculty members within the TTU System.

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tags: News Releases, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, Statline, Stories

ESPN’s Holly Rowe Speaks at ‘Surviving on the Sidelines’

February 07, 2019

ESPN’s Holly Rowe Speaks at ‘Surviving on the Sidelines’

Rowe shared her inspirational story about sports reporting, parenting and fighting cancer at “Surviving on the Sidelines” hosted by the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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tags: Statline, Stories

Eleven Things You Didn’t Know About TTUHSC

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.

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

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