This week's topics include covid vaccination and pregnancy outcomes, tirzepatide benefits, bisphosphonates and complex pain syndrome, and breast density knowledge.

Born and raised in El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio, Dr. Saul Ivan Ramirez’s medical journey began in the community he now serves. A proud first-generation college graduate, he is a board-certified internal medicine doctor — a physician who specializes in the comprehensive care of adults, focusing on prevention, diagnosis and management of chronic diseases.

Global Health and Societies is calling for abstracts for presentations at its Global Health Conference on Friday, March 13, 2026. Abstract submissions are due Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.

Texas Tech Health El Paso’s third annual Lighting Campus for Hope, presented by Hunt Companies, illuminated the campus with holiday magic on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Families, friends and cancer warriors from across our Borderplex, with an estimated 1,000 in attendance, celebrated hope and unity in the fight against cancer.

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.

Across our Borderplex, we often say we’re more than a community — we’re a family. That’s why GECU is driven by a simple yet impactful value: People Helping People. This is more than a philosophy, it’s our promise.

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.