March 22, 2019
March 21, 2019
Join us the morning of March 30th, 2019 for the inaugural Lubbock City Lights 5K/2K. All proceeds will support TTUHSC Free Clinic, Lubbock Meals on Wheels, Children's Advocacy Center of the South Plains, and Voice of Hope.
March 21, 2019
The Department of Patient Services hosted a week of recognition for their employees and senior volunteers. Eleven Patient Services staff members and five senior volunteers were honored for their daily efforts to make the patients of Texas Tech Physicians feel comfortable and cared for.
March 21, 2019
As a 23-year-old college graduate in 1998, Dr. Felix Morales, sat next to astronaut, physician and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine alumnus Dr. Bernard Harris at an event to kick off a new premedical society. Morales was asked by Dr. Leo Vela from the Office of Diversity to help start this organization in order for the undergraduate campus to be more inclusive of all people who may want to go into the medical field.
March 20, 2019
TTUHSC schools have worked collaboratively to provide the West Texas community insight into health care fields. High school students, college students and current professionals interested in entering a new career are encouraged to attend.
March 20, 2019
The goal of the conference is to provide health care professionals involved in primary care with knowledge in current, contemporary and common issues relevant to internal medicine and general practice.
March 20, 2019
Medical students began the Lubbock City Lights tradition in 1997. Since then, more than $1 million has been raised and helped numerous local charities and organizations in the West Texas community.
March 20, 2019
It is interesting that now, with talk of Medicare for All and single-payer health care system being bantered about, a good number of doctors, hospital leaders, pharmaceutical companies executives, and CEOs of insurance companies are banning together to kill these proposals, according to recent news reports. These groups are organizing a massive campaign, they call the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, to provide "counter-messaging" against Medicare for All and to thwart any effort that moves away from the status quo of private insurance and toward a big new public program.
February 18, 2019
Former Gov. Preston Smith had a vision of providing more physicians to the West Texas area. Now 50 years later, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) celebrates the milestone beginning with a 50th Anniversary announcement.
February 18, 2019
In 1969, the 61st Texas Legislature passed a bill creating the Texas Tech University School of Medicine that was signed by Gov. Preston Smith. The establishment of this institution was not without its challenges and controversies.