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Characterizing Cancers, Human Phenotype project, and CBT by telehealth
This week's topics include the Human Phenotype project, CBT by telehealth and chronic pain, looking at RNA to characterize cancers, and air pollution and cognitive impairment with age.
Gentle, Joyful Care
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.
Endowed Scholarship Gift
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.
Reanimating Hearts, Suicide Among Older Adults, Opiate Use Disorder, and Breast Cancer
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.
Honoring Collaboration and Champions
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.
Kids’ Health, Life Expectancy and Heart Risk Calculators
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.
Training To Triumph
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.
Aphasia After Stroke, Chemotherapy Drugs, and New Hypertension Medicine
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.
Leadership Excellence
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.
Expanding Dental Access
As he approached his 65th birthday, José Ramírez of El Paso feared he had no choice but to pay for pricey dental coverage.
Tawney's Transformational Tenure
Andrea Tawney, Ph.D., vice president of Institutional Advancement at Texas Tech Health El Paso, will depart the university on Sept. 30, 2025, after seven years of visionary leadership and service to the institution and our Borderplex .
Survivor’s Lasting Legacy
For Wayne Martin, Father’s Day, which falls during National Cancer Survivor Month, serves as a reminder of a decision he made three decades ago to trust his instincts and advocate for cancer screenings.
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