Texas Tech Health El Paso celebrated 231 graduates on Tuesday, May 20, at the Plaza Theatre in Downtown El Paso — marking a new chapter for our region’s future doctors, nurses and biomedical scientists.

Michelle Ortiz vividly recalls the day as a dental student when, after gently adjusting a patient's dentures, she watched as tears welled up in the woman's eyes. After years of hiding her smile behind closed lips, the patient beamed with newfound confidence. For Ortiz, that single moment confirmed she had made the right decision to become a dentist.

This week's topics include USPSTF on screening for syphilis in pregnancy, when to take blood pressure medicines, comparing weight loss drugs, and a narrative intervention for PTSD after an ICU stay.

Texas Mutual Insurance Company recently awarded $55,000 to Texas Tech Health El Paso to help medical assistant students finish their clinical training through internships at the university, and to support generational learning and workforce development.

As National Nurses Week draws to a close, Texas Tech Health El Paso announced that business leaders Pat and Laura Gordon have generously donated $25,000 to fund a full-ride scholarship for a Hunt School of Nursing student.

The Community Scientist Program, coordinated by UTHealth Houston and M.D. Anderson, is now offering feedback sessions for El Paso-area researchers. The free program connects researchers with trained community members who can provide valuable feedback on research design, implementation, and recruitment and retention. 

Texas Tech Health El Paso broke ground on the Gary Petz Memorial Garden with a heartfelt ceremony on April 18, honoring those who donated their bodies to the university’s  Willed Body Program.

This week's topics include large language models and discharge summaries, treating female urinary incontinence, using AI to diagnose diabetic kidney disease, and a Covid/flu vaccine.

High school students are invited to learn more about attending the Hunt School of Nursing at the 2025 NextGen Nursing Camp.

Hosted by the Hunt School of Nursing, the three-day camp will be held June 11-13 at Medical Science Building II on the Texas Tech Health El Paso campus.

Kristine Muñoz Glass, M.D., served seven years in the U.S. Navy as a psychiatric medical officer. After her active-duty service, she became a community psychiatrist in San Diego, and eventually returned to her hometown of El Paso, where she delivered psychiatric care for veterans for eight years. Today, that valuable experience is benefiting her patients at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso.

Texas Tech Health El Paso’s Hunt School of Nursing is celebrating National Nurses Week with an impressive first-time pass rate of 93.1% on the 2024 National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), the standardized exam for nursing licensure in the United States and Canada. This exceeds the national average of 91.9%.

A recent visit to the Texas Tech Dental Oral Health Clinic began like any other — a patient came in for a routine checkup and casually mentioned a slight discoloration on their gums. But thanks to the attentiveness of a student provider, that small concern led to a critical discovery: precancerous lesions.