Mark your calendars and get ready to volunteer for Texas Tech Health El Paso’s Days of Service, April 21-24, 2026. Days of Service is a great opportunity for our campus to demonstrate our values of community service and teamwork!

Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dentists across the region will be able to complete more continuing education hours as a team through Texas Tech Health El Paso. The university has earned Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education, enabling unified, team-based training to strengthen coordination and patient safety.

This week's topics include weight regain after medications for weight loss, benefits of a variety of exercises, connecting CKD with heart failure, and using wastewater to detect measles.

Saturday nights can be busy for Texas Physicians of El Paso doctors working in the trauma bays at University Medical Center of El Paso. EMTs wheel in patients who have experienced severe falls, car accidents resulting in complex fractures, or they might have serious conditions like bone cancer. What many of them share is their wait to see an orthopaedic specialist like Rajiv Rajani, M.D.

Family, friends and faculty gathered Tuesday, Jan. 20, to celebrate a milestone moment for the Hunt School of Nursing’s newest students during the White Coat Ceremony.

This week's topics include rates of vaccination in U.S. children, use of CNS active medicines in older adults, FDA regulation of mifepristone, and trends in skilled nursing facilities nationally.

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in our Borderplex often face financial challenges and limited access to providers when trying to get the dental care they deserve. To help address this need, the Hunt School of Dental Medicine, with support from the Dental Trade Alliance Foundation, hosted a series of oral health workshops last fall.

This week we look at infant screen time and anxiety, global pain levels, d-dimer and DVT, and tertiary patents on FDA approved drugs.

Biff F. Palmer, M.D., FACP, FASN, professor of education and internal medicine at the Texas Tech Health El Paso’s Foster School of Medicine, received the prestigious Robert G. Narins Award in early November — recognizing his extensive contributions to training the next generation of nephrologists, physicians who treat diseases of the kidneys.

For 39 years, El Paso dentist Richard C. Black, D.D.S., M.S., served his community with compassionate care. Now, as founding dean of the Hunt School of Dental Medicine, he’s leading the effort to train the next generation of oral health care providers for our Borderplex region.

The HIPAA Privacy policies HPP 1.5, 1.10, and 7.1 were revised on November 18, 2025.

Just months after launching the Building Hope Campaign, one of the largest fundraising initiatives in the university's history, Texas Tech Health El Paso has raised $52.5 million to help build the Fox Cancer Center.