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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
American College of Surgeons President Beth H. Sutton, M.D., FACS, paid a visit to Texas Tech Health El Paso on Thursday, May 15.
On June 9, Texas Tech Health El Paso and The University of Texas at El Paso announced the third cohort of students selected for MedFuture, an initiative that jointly admits talented high school seniors from West Texas to college and medical school in El Paso.
The moment Clarissa Sanchez of El Paso slipped on her pristine white coat, embroidered with the Hunt School of Nursing seal, her childhood dream crystallized into purpose.
A respected leader in medicine and medical education, Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso Family Physician and the Foster School of Medicine Assistant Professor Rebecca Campos, M.D., FAAFP, FAIHM, ABIHM, was recently honored at the Texas Capitol as the Texas Senate’s Doctor of the Day.
This week's topics include treating hot flashes in breast cancer survivors, a blood test for detecting colorectal cancer, exercise to improve survival after colorectal cancer treatment and CAR-T therapy for solid tumors.
Texas Tech Health El Paso has named Eric M. Rohren, M.D., Ph.D., as the new Rick and Ginger Francis Endowed Dean of the Foster School of Medicine, a school established to address our Borderplex region’s critical physician shortage.
Far West Texas students are spending more time in classrooms thanks to a telehealth program that brings specialized health care directly to school nurses’ offices.
The fictional life of 45-year-old Robert hung in the balance after a truck lost control and plunged into a local community center, causing a multiple-vehicle collision.
This week's topics include treating resistant hypertension, gabapentanoids and the risk of self harm, risk for depression after diagnosis of a medical condition, and fatty liver and pregnancy.
Texas Tech Health El Paso celebrated 231 graduates on Tuesday, May 20, at the Plaza Theatre in Downtown El Paso — marking a new chapter for our region’s future doctors, nurses and biomedical scientists.
Michelle Ortiz vividly recalls the day as a dental student when, after gently adjusting a patient's dentures, she watched as tears welled up in the woman's eyes. After years of hiding her smile behind closed lips, the patient beamed with newfound confidence. For Ortiz, that single moment confirmed she had made the right decision to become a dentist.
This week's topics include USPSTF on screening for syphilis in pregnancy, when to take blood pressure medicines, comparing weight loss drugs, and a narrative intervention for PTSD after an ICU stay.
Texas Mutual Insurance Company recently awarded $55,000 to Texas Tech Health El Paso to help medical assistant students finish their clinical training through internships at the university, and to support generational learning and workforce development.
As National Nurses Week draws to a close, Texas Tech Health El Paso announced that business leaders Pat and Laura Gordon have generously donated $25,000 to fund a full-ride scholarship for a Hunt School of Nursing student.
Texas Tech Health El Paso broke ground on the Gary Petz Memorial Garden with a heartfelt ceremony on April 18, honoring those who donated their bodies to the university’s Willed Body Program.
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.
Kristine Muñoz Glass, M.D., served seven years in the U.S. Navy as a psychiatric medical officer. After her active-duty service, she became a community psychiatrist in San Diego, and eventually returned to her hometown of El Paso, where she delivered psychiatric care for veterans for eight years. Today, that valuable experience is benefiting her patients at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso.
Texas Tech Health El Paso’s Hunt School of Nursing is celebrating National Nurses Week with an impressive first-time pass rate of 93.1% on the 2024 National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), the standardized exam for nursing licensure in the United States and Canada. This exceeds the national average of 91.9%.