Research Spotlight
Recent articles featuring Texas Tech Health El Paso researchers:
Updated Jan. 29, 2026
Real-time Ultrasound-guided Lumbar Puncture: A Comparison of Two Techniques Using Simulation
Right Ventricular Outflow Conduit Stenosis After Childhood Ross-Konno Procedure
Save the date for the 2026 Global Health Conference, presented by Global Health and Societies.
Faculty are invited to participate in the UTEP and Texas Tech Health El Paso Impact Collective, a program that brings faculty together through place-based learning.
The April 1 event will include a guided tour of the Socorro Mission and San Elizario Presidio Chapel, followed by lunch and conversations designed to spark new collaborations.
The Office of Research invites the Texas Tech Health El Paso community to the 2026 Research Symposium, where faculty and students come together to showcase their innovative research.
El Paso researchers pursue new treatments for disease affecting local families.
Health care professionals and community organization staff are invited to attend the 2025 Global Health Conference on Friday, May 2, at Medical Education Building Room 1100. The event is presented by the Office of Global Health and Societies.
The Office of Research is calling for abstracts for the 2026 Institutional Research Symposium, taking place Tuesday, April 28, through Thursday, April 30, at the Medical Education Building.
The Office of Research invites the Texas Tech Health El Paso community to the 2026 Institutional Research Symposium, where faculty and students come together to showcase their innovative research.
The Department of Pathology’s January 2026 newsletter is now available for download.
Global Health and Societies is calling for abstracts for presentations at its Global Health Conference on Friday, March 13, 2026. Abstract submissions are due Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.
The Department of Pathology’s July 2025 newsletter is now available for download.
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.
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.
This week's topics include implications of protein S, endothelial cell genetic assessment and lipid lowering, cardiac rehab on an app, and vitamin D and respiratory infectious disease.
Health care professionals and community organization staff are invited to attend the 2025 Global Health Conference on Friday, May 2, at Medical Education Building Room 1100. The event is presented by the Office of Global Health and Societies.
The National Institutes of Health is requiring all researchers who apply for, receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies to use the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) tool to complete the Common Forms and Biosketch by May 25, 2025.
Simulation experts are invited to submit abstracts for the 2025 SimGHOSTS X - El Paso health care simulation education conference, May 15-16, 2025. The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, March 21.
This week's topics include implications of protein S, endothelial cell genetic assessment and lipid lowering, cardiac rehab on an app, and vitamin D and respiratory infectious disease.
Texas Tech Health El Paso researcher Subodh Kumar, Ph.D., M.S., has been awarded a $55,000 grant for his study on an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker within the Hispanic population.
The Office of Research is calling for abstracts for the Institutional Research Symposium taking place on Tuesday, April 8, through Thursday, April 10, 2025, at Texas Tech Health El Paso.
The Department of Pathology’s July 2025 newsletter is now available for download.
Texas Tech Health El Paso has received a highly competitive $445,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, part of which will fund research on gastroparesis in children.
The Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at UTHealth Houston and Texas Tech Health El Paso have formalized their partnership thanks to funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Salma Elwazeer is one of two dentists appointed to Association for Prevention Teaching and Research’s National Task Force.
The Journal of Neurogastroenterology & Motility highlights a successful study of the MoPill wireless capsule, investigated by Texas Tech Health El Paso researchers
Mariela Lane, M.D., an assistant professor and clinical assistant professor at Texas Tech Health El Paso, has been appointed to the Strategic Educators Enhancement Fellowship (SEEF).
Seven distinguished researchers from Texas Tech Health El Paso have been recognized on Stanford University/Elsevier’s prestigious World’s Top 2% of Scientists List.
Goal of $3.1 million research project is to promote the development of non-opioid therapies.
Dr. Kazue Okajima received a grant to research the effectiveness of blood-thinning treatments in Hispanic heart patients.
The grant provides up to $8,500 for SARP projects undertaken by students mentored by Foster School of Medicine Faculty.
The Office of Research invites researchers to submit their abstracts for the 16th Annual Research Symposium at Texas Tech Health El Paso.
The January 2024 Department of Pathology newsletter is now available for download.
Gastroparesis patient Patrick Ellis’s quality of life transformed, thanks to a treatment developed by TTUHSC El Paso gastroenterologists Irene Sarosiek, M.D., and Richard McCallum, M.D.
TTUHSC El Paso is launching its own Cureus Journal of Medical Science channel where our residents, fellows, students, and faculty members can submit their work for publication.