The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is a public

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based in

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, with additional campuses in Abilene,

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and the Permian Basin. TTUHSC serves more than 100 counties in the western portion of Texas. The university is a separate institution from

Texas Tech University Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sys ...

; both universities are among four universities that are part of the

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Schools

Biomedical sciences

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) has campuses in Lubbock, Abilene, and Amarillo. The school offers doctoral and master's degrees in biomedical sciences, as well as professional certificates and dual degrees in collaboration with the School of Medicine.

Health professions

The school began in 1983 as the School of Allied Health Sciences and currently has campuses in Amarillo, Lubbock, and the Permian Basin. More than 1,800 students are currently enrolled in 20 different degree programs at the doctoral, master's and baccalaureate degree levels. These programs include areas of study, such as

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audiology Audiology (from Latin , "to hear"; and from Greek , ''-logia'') is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. By employing various ...

, clinical management,

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, molecular pathology, physical and occupational therapy, physician assistant, rehabilitation, and speech-language pathology.

Medicine

The

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine (TTUHSC SOM) is the medical school of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). TTUHSC SOM was originally chartered in 1969 to train more physicians for the underse ...

in Lubbock has awarded more than 3,000

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degrees since its first graduating class in 1974. The school was commissioned to train physicians to help meet the health care needs of residents of West Texas, a population that now includes more than 2.5 million people. When the school opened, West Texas had one physician for every 1,300 residents. Currently, the ratio is about one physician for every 750 residents. Students spend their first two years of study in Lubbock and their last two years studying in Amarillo, Odessa or Lubbock. A self-proclaimed major initiative for the school is to "recruit creative, innovative research faculty and to develop graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for lifelong careers in medical research."

Nursing

The school has campuses in Lubbock, Permian Basin, Highland Lakes, and Abilene; and it educates more than 1,000 students each year. Bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in nursing are issued by the school. The School of Nursing offers the only

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program in West Texas. The school is known for its alternatives to traditional educational opportunities including online coursework for a

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to obtain a

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, a second-degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing program for students with a bachelor's degree in another subject, and a Veteran to Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree for veterans with military medical experience who wish to earn a nursing degree but already have considerable knowledge that distinguishes them from a traditional nursing student.

Pharmacy

The School of Pharmacy's administrative hub is located in Amarillo and the school has regional campus sites in Lubbock, Dallas and Abilene. The school has two Dallas-area regional sites: one located on the grounds of the North Texas Veterans Administration Medical Center and the second located within the central Dallas medical district. Lubbock faculty and residents also operate the TTUHSC Pharmacy, which provides medications and biologicals to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Montford Unit Regional Medical Facility; the TTUHSC International Pain Institute; the Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center; and TTUHSC clinics in Lubbock, Odessa and El Paso. The TTUHSC Pharmacy also provides

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services to the rural communities of

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and

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. The first telepharmacy prescription dispensed in Texas occurred September 18, 2002, between the TTUHSC Pharmacy and the Turkey Medical Clinic. * Department of Pharmacy Practice * Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences * Department of Biomedical Sciences

Public health

The Julia Jones Matthews School of Population and Public Health is located on the Abilene and Lubbock campuses.

Campuses

Institutes and centers

* F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health * Garrison Institute on Aging (GIA) * The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) *

Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health The Laura Bush, Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health within the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center was established in 2007 to promote research specific to women's health, to provide advanced sex and gender specific education to he ...

(LWBIWH) * Center of Excellence for Geriatric Scholarship, Training, and Faculty Development * Center of Excellence in Evidence-Based Practice (CEEBP) * Center for Innovation in Nursing Education (CINE) * Center for International and Multicultural Affairs (CIMA) * Center for Membrane Protein Research * Center for Rehabilitation Research * Pediatric Pharmacology Research and Development Center * School of Medicine Cancer Center * School of Pharmacy Cancer Biology Center (CBC) * South Plains Alcohol and Addiction Research Center (SPAARC) * University Medical Center Southwest Cancer Treatment Center * Vascular Drug Research Center * West Texas Influenza Center

Objectives

The presence of TTUHSC has impacted the access to health care in West Texas. Over 20% of the physicians currently practicing in West Texas are TTUHSC medical school or residency graduates. The schools of Nursing and Health Professions impact West Texas, with most of their graduates remaining in West Texas to pursue their chosen profession. Over 80% of School of Pharmacy graduates have chosen to practice in Texas.

Traditions

White Coat ceremony

Usually held in August, a new group of first-year medical students participate in the White Coat Ceremony each year. This event is a rite of passage for first-year medical students as they don their coats and take a Hippocratic oath affirming their commitment to the highest standards of ethics and patient care. At the TTUHSC School of Medicine in Lubbock, the ceremony is held at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.

People

Alumni

Donna Campbell Donna Sue Burrows Campbell (born September 9, 1954) is an American politician and physician who is the 25th District member of the Texas Senate. On July 31, 2012, she became the first person in Texas history to defeat an incumbent Republican sen ...

, member of the

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, is an emergency room physician from

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. She graduated from Texas Tech with her M.D. in 1989. *

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graduated from the SOM in 1982 before becoming an

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with

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and has spent more than 400 hours in space.

Faculty

Bernard T. Mittemeyer Bernhard Theodore Mittemeyer (October 30, 1930 – January 25, 2023) was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Surgeon General of the United States Army between 1981 and 1985. Early life, education, and career Mittemeyer was b ...

* Tom Shires * Amy Doneen, DNP

Presidents

* David R. Smith (1996 – Sept 2001) * M. Roy Wilson (Jun 2003 – Jun 2006 * Bernhard T. Mittemeyer interim) Jul 2006–*

John C. Baldwin John Charles Baldwin (September 23, 1948 – April 3, 2016) was an American cardiac surgeon and academic administrator. He served as the surgery department chairman at Baylor College of Medicine, as dean of Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medi ...

(Jul 2007 – Sept 2009) * Tedd L. Mitchell (May 2010–2019) * Lori Rice-Spearman (2020–present)

References

External links

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