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University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) and Texas Tech Health El Paso are opening the region’s first dedicated burn center under the leadership of nationally recognized trauma and burn surgeon, Philip E. Fidler, M.D., FACS. This partnership transforms El Paso into a regional hub for specialized burn care and eliminates treatment delays that can mean the difference between recovery and permanent disability.
This week's topics include decentralized clinical trials, GLP-1 peripregnancy, LLM and normal tissue characterization, and texting to improve CVD risk assessment.
Health care leaders, civic officials, and community advocates, including El Paso County Judge Ricardo A. Samaniego, gathered on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at Texas Tech Health El Paso’s auditorium to welcome Eric M. Rohren, M.D., Ph.D., FACR, as the new Rick and Ginger Francis Endowed Dean of the Foster School of Medicine.
This week's topics include acetaminophen in pregnancy and ASD, the impact of canceling funding for clinical trials, supplementing potassium in people with ICDs, and mRNA flu vaccines.
With critical oral health disparities rising in El Paso County, Texas Tech Health El Paso is launching Borderland Dental Leaders: Building Bridges program with a $400,000 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
This week's topics include medications after successful ablation for afib, fish oil for those having hemodialysis, anticoagulation after stent placement, and best therapy for stents and afib.
As Cynthia Maldonado drives past the Texas Tech Health El Paso campus on her way to work, she recalls conversations she had years ago with her mother during their morning commute to Silva Health Magnet High School. They would discuss the medical school buildings under construction across the street and the possibility of Cynthia becoming a doctor.
Texas Tech Health El Paso has selected a native El Pasoan as its next vice president for Institutional Advancement.
Texas Tech Online recently announced the launch of the $10K Degree Completion Program in El Paso— an affordable, flexible pathway designed for working professionals who are interested in advancing their career, gain new opportunities and achieve their academic goals.
This week's topics include LSD and anxiety disorders, cardiac rehab in older people after MI, CT and pregnancy outcomes, and a new agent for treatment of resistant hypertension.
Researchers at Texas Tech Health El Paso and The University of Texas at El Paso are developing a new smartphone-based tool that uses artificial intelligence to improve the diagnosis of chronic ankle instability (CAI), thanks to a $40,000 Sobel-Duncan Border Health Research Award.
This week's topics include impact of social media on adolescent cognition, gene therapy for ADA deficiency, a new treatment for SLE, and AI in health care.
Texas Tech Health El Paso is expanding infectious disease services for our Borderplex families with the addition of Jeffrey Sherwood, M.D., an infectious disease specialist whose military medical training and expertise strengthen care in resource-limited settings.
This week's topics include LSD and anxiety disorders, cardiac rehab in older people after MI, CT and pregnancy outcomes, and a new agent for treatment of resistant hypertension.
Dr. Kris Nicole De Guzman Mendoza’s medical journey took her across the globe, but it was El Paso that felt like home.
Inspired by her personal 35-year journey through breast cancer, retired nurse Phyllis Davis and her husband, retired physician Pete Davis, M.D., made a generous $100,000 gift to the Fox Cancer Center on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
World-class cancer care is coming to El Paso, thanks in part to a friendship forged between two auto dealership leaders united in a mission to bring world-class cancer treatment closer to our Borderplex region.
When the Electric Company Charitable Foundation announced a new investment at Texas Tech Health El Paso’s fourth annual Welcome Back Fiesta on Wednesday, Sept. 24, they weren’t just supporting individual students — they were investing in the future of health care access across our Borderplex.
Texas Tech Health El Paso's Community Health Outreach and Education Program proves that every drop of knowledge creates waves of lasting change.
Today, Texas Tech Health El Paso celebrated the groundbreaking of the Fox Cancer Center, a transformative facility that will deliver comprehensive, world-class cancer care to our Borderplex residents.
The breakfast rush at Lucy's Café West is a well-choreographed dance, with David Lepe darting through the tiny restaurant taking orders, clearing tables, and greeting customers — both old and new — with warmth and energy to spare.
This week's topics include LSD and anxiety disorders, cardiac rehab in older people after MI, CT and pregnancy outcomes, and a new agent for treatment of resistant hypertension.
This week's topics include use of beta blockers after MI, revascularization in NSTEMI, discontinuation of blood thinners after ablation for afib, and use of RSV vaccination and hospitalization and other outcomes.
Dozens of lives were changed Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Hunt School of Nursing White Coat Ceremony.
This week's topics include trauma predictive brain networks, AI and colonoscopy, ADHD treatment and behavior choices, and medication affordability around the world.
When Jennifer Rau celebrated her five-year milestone since her breast cancer diagnosis — symbolizing victory over the disease — her older sister Kristin Sizemore received a phone call that would forever change their family's story.
One by one, 59 new dental students stepped onto the stage and returned transformed, each wearing the white coat that marks the beginning of their profession.
This week's topics include who's delivering cancer care, new treatment for staph, diet and type 2 diabetes and potatoes and type 2 diabetes.
Texas Tech Health El Paso recognized two Hunt School of Dental Medicine students who received life-changing four-year scholarships.
When Texas Tech Health El Paso graduate students Alejandra Muñoz and Briana Olivares discovered that Del Valle High School had more than a million dollars’ worth of unused laboratory equipment sitting in boxes, they discovered an opportunity.