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March 11, 2019

Masking Up for a Great Cause

Medical students began the Lubbock City Lights tradition in 1997. Since then, more than $1 million has been raised and helped numerous local charities and organizations in the West Texas community.

tags: Statline, Stories, The Free Clinic

March 11, 2019

Eleventh Annual Update in General Internal Medicine

The goal of the conference is to provide health care professionals involved in primary care with knowledge in current, contemporary and common issues relevant to internal medicine and general practice.

tags: Events, Statline, Stories

March 11, 2019

Making A Difference: The Free Clinic Extraordinary Volunteers

Volunteering at The Free Clinic has furthered my desire to help people from communities of need, specifically, the Spanish-speaking patients.

tags: Statline, Stories, Students, The Free Clinic

March 11, 2019

Explore, Engage and Imagine

TTUHSC schools have worked collaboratively to provide the West Texas community insight into health care fields. High school students, college students and current professionals interested in entering a new career are encouraged to attend.

tags: Events, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, Statline, Stories

March 11, 2019

Early Dedication to Medical Education

EDME is for all students who have an interest in the medical field. EDME’s goal is to build a connection between high school students and the TTUHSC School of Medicine.

tags: Events, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

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 28, 2019

Educating the Next Generation of Physicians

Williams, originally from Dublin, Ireland, moved to Lubbock, Texas, as an assistant professor in 1995 after completing postdoctoral training in the area of gene regulation and cancer at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland. He was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and served as Director of Research at the Southwest Cancer Research and Treatment Center until 2005.

tags: Faculty, Lubbock, Research, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

February 22, 2019

Prien Named to National Academy of Inventors

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Professor Samuel Prien, Ph.D., to the inaugural class of 66 NAI Senior Members.

tags: Faculty, Research, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

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.

tags: Faculty, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

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