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The Texas Tech Health El Paso Office of Research has launched a new quarterly newsletter designed to keep faculty and the campus research community informed about resources, opportunities and developments that can support their work.
A new study led by researchers at Texas Tech Health El Paso’s Hunt School of Dental Medicine will examine how the oral health knowledge of informal caregivers—unpaid family members or friends who help care for someone with dementia—may influence access to dental care for both the person receiving care and the caregiver.
Maria Land still remembers the patient who came in for a routine dental visit and left with an unexpected warning sign: her A1C was elevated, placing her at risk for diabetes.
Texas Tech Health El Paso students will receive $40,000 in scholarship support from the Electric Company Charitable Foundation to help prepare the region’s future healthcare workforce. The gift was announced during Texas Tech Health El Paso’s annual Welcome Back Fiesta, where students, faculty and staff gathered outdoors for a celebration of the new academic year.
A $250,000 gift will establish the Burgess Family Special Needs Dentistry Fellowship Endowment at the Hunt School of Dental Medicine, creating the school’s first postdoctoral fellowship dedicated to advanced training in special needs dentistry.
Eighty-seven future nurses took an important first step in their healthcare careers on Tuesday, Sept. 1, as they received their white coats during the Hunt School of Nursing Fall 2026 White Coat Ceremony at Texas Tech Health El Paso.
For 138 future physicians, a white coat marked the beginning of a journey that will take them from the classrooms of Texas Tech Health El Paso to caring for patients in the Borderplex and beyond.
Texas Tech Health El Paso General Surgery Chief Resident Jonathan Gevorkian, M.D., has been named a Raleigh R. Ross Scholar by the Texas Surgical Society for his scholarly achievements in surgery.
For the newest students at the Hunt School of Dental Medicine, a white coat marks the start of dental school while also symbolizing a commitment to serving their patients and communities.
A $30,000 ADEAGies Foundation grant will give Hunt School of Dental Medicine students valuable experience working with community organizations to tackle real-world oral health challenges and conduct research that leads to better patient care.
UMC Healthcare Partners’ Vascular and Endovascular Surgery has earned accreditation in five vascular testing areas from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, becoming the first vascular surgery practice in El Paso to achieve accreditation in all five categories.
Lighting Campus for Hope returns to the Texas Tech Health El Paso campus on Dec. 4 with support from local institutions that help fund cancer screenings.
More than 300 children and their families filled the clinic at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso at Alberta on a Saturday in July for the Superheroes Health Fair. Hosted by the General Pediatrics Outpatient Division in partnership with El Paso Health, the back-to-school event paired real-life healthcare superheroes with costumed characters inspired by comic books.
A major philanthropic gift from Ronnie and Ashley Lowenfield will help shape how cancer specialists collaborate to care for patients at the future Steve and Nancy Fox Cancer Center, now under construction at Texas Tech Health El Paso.
This week's topics include GLP1s and AUD, impact of CVD risk calculation, meeting lipid lowering targets, and no luck with a vaccine for gonorrhea.
When Dr. Alexis Reedy-Cooper talks about family medicine, she speaks about creating opportunities for others to grow.
A message of hope now shines above the future Steve and Nancy Fox Cancer Center.
This week's topics include continuing dual antiplatelet therapy after stenting, amyloid depletion in Alzheimer's, infections in US hospitals, and algorithms for diagnosing PE in people with cancer.
This week's topics include a dual-action prosthesis for hip replacement, a new inhaled agent for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, testing nursing home residents for respiratory viruses, and online GLP-1 prescribing.
The inaugural fellows of Texas Tech Health El Paso's new forensic psychiatry fellowship were recognized during a graduation ceremony on campus in June, highlighting a program aimed at addressing shortages in forensic psychiatric expertise in our community.
This week's topics include technology to improve stroke outcomes, adult use of social media and health decisions, impact of social media ban on Australian youth, and an LLM to augment clinical management in a low resource setting.
A wellness program designed by Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso at Transmountain’s Family Medicine Residency Program beat out 65 other proposals to become one of only three funded nationwide. The people who chose it say El Paso's border identity is exactly why it rose to the top.
Six Texas Tech Health El Paso faculty members appear on the Stanford-Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List, an annual bibliometric ranking developed by Stanford University researcher John P.A. Ioannidis and colleagues to measure research citation impact across 22 scientific fields.
This week's topics include SES and brain development in kids, lifestyle changes and multimobidity, food labeling and childhood obesity, and prehabilitation in elders.
On June 17, Texas Tech Health El Paso and The University of Texas at El Paso recognized six accomplished high school seniors who have been selected for the fourth MedFuture cohort.
June is Wound Healing Awareness month, and Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso wants Borderplex residents to know specialists such as Brittany Shoemake, M.D., can help patients with chronic wounds reclaim their health.
Ana Alvarado is a friendly face just about everyone on the Texas Tech Health El Paso campus sees, knows and respects. She joined the General Services team as its first female member back in September of 2008. Since then, she and the department have climbed the ladder of success at Texas Tech Health El Paso.
This week's topics include duration of dual anticoagulation following bypass grafting or stents, how has management of miscarriage changed, at home rehab after an ICU stay, and weight loss for atrial fibrillation.
This week's topics include duration of dual anticoagulation following bypass grafting or stents, how has management of miscarriage changed, at home rehab after an ICU stay, and weight loss for atrial fibrillation.
As running clubs, community walks and recreational fitness activities grow across the Borderplex, orthopaedic specialists say joint pain should not automatically discourage people from staying active.