When Kelly Yang, then a third-year Texas Tech Health El Paso Hunt School of Dental Medicine student, noticed patients with special needs required sedation for routine dental procedures, she developed a solution.

The Department of Pathology’s July 2025 newsletter is now available for download.

A new endowed scholarship has been created at Texas Tech Health El Paso thanks to Scott B. Crawford, M.D., FACEP, FSSH, FAWM, Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Executive Director of the Training and Educational Center for Healthcare Simulation (TECHS), and his wife, Jenn, Assistant Vice President for Strategic Marketing in UTEP’s Marketing and Communications division.

This week's topics include a comprehensive look at kid's health in the US, remaining life expectancy deficits after Covid, heart risk calculators in different ethnicities, and screening for hep C in the ED.

Texas Tech Health El Paso proudly celebrated its first official Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day, a new annual tradition dedicated to championing collaboration, connection, and community within health professions education.

This week's topics include a comprehensive look at kid's health in the US, remaining life expectancy deficits after Covid, heart risk calculators in different ethnicities, and screening for hep C in the ED.

Texas Tech Health El Paso and The Hospitals of Providence Transmountain Campus recently celebrated the first cohort of psychiatry and family medicine residents and the second cohort of Internal Medicine residents who completed their graduate medical education – highlighting their years of intensive hands-on clinical experience.

This week's topics include a novel way to help aphasia post-stroke, a new type of hypertension medicine, ED boarding in older adults, and substandard chemotherapy drugs.

This week's topics include an oral GLP-1 agonist, activating two satiety pathways, mental health in US adolescents, and stem cell tx for T1D.

To join the team of faculty surgeons at Texas Tech Health El Paso’s Foster School of Medicine, Tiffany M. Lasky, D.O., M.H.S., had to navigate to a starkly different landscape. She traded the misty mountains and winding roads of rural Appalachia for the vast, arid Chihuahuan Desert surrounding El Paso.

As he approached his 65th birthday, José Ramírez of El Paso feared he had no choice but to pay for pricey dental coverage.

This week's topics include using CT to help determine brain death, PET scanning for tau in Alzheimer's, screen time trajectories in US youth and mental health, and cannabis and your heart.