TTUHSC graduates more than students

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                                          TTUHSC graduates
                                         more than 900 students


  Memorial Day May 26             P   resident John C. Baldwin, M.D., presided over
                                      his first TTUHSC graduation with students
                                  from all campuses, including the Graduate
         TTUHSC holiday           School of Biomedical Sciences and the schools of
                                  Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health Sciences and           TTUHSC nursing students gather for a picture before
  May 23                          Pharmacy last weekend.                                  the commencement ceremony at the United Spirit
                                    A total of 928 students received degrees in these     Arena last weekend.
  Noon
                                  health disciplines. Hooding and student awards
  ACB 120
                                  were presented at individual school convocations      Eunice Lee, Dean’s Undergraduate Award for
  President’s Forum on
  International Health. Kenn      held prior to the commencement ceremony.              Excellence in SOAHS
  Freedman, M.D., Ph.D.,            Awards included:                                    Laura Christine Patterson, Pharm.D., Bowl of
  “Mission to the Tarahumara        Savitha S. Sharma, Ph.D., Dean’s Recognition        Hygieia for School of Pharmacy
  Indians of Southern             Award for Graduate School of Biomedical               Elaine Chen, Pharm.D., the highest GPA in the
  Chihuahua.”                     Sciences                                              SOP
                                  Jennifer Paulson, Ph.D., Outstanding Graduate           Baldwin said it was an honor to serve in his
  May 23                          Student in GSBS                                       first TTUHSC commencement ceremony with
  12:15 p.m., 12:40 p.m.          Benjamin Aaron Hirsch, M.D., Gold Headed              graduates from each school.
  ACB 110                         Cane                                                    Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, the
  National Women’s Health         Ashley Marie Goodnight, M.D., Dean’s Highest          Honorable William H. Frist, M.D., was this year’s
  Week, Joehassin Cordero,        Academic Achievement in School of Medicine            keynote commencement speaker.
  M.D., “Sleep Apnea and          Laura L. Tarabocchia, Graduate Award for                Frist reminded students about the importance
  Snoring,” and Cornelia de       Excellence in Nursing                                 of their chosen profession and to always keep in
  Riese, M.D., “Pelvic Problems   Abi Mikkel Finberg, Undergraduate Award for           mind the responsibility they have to their patients.
  and Procedures.”                Excellence in Nursing                                   In one of her final roles as Texas Tech
                                  Leah Ashley Maenius, M.S., Graduate Dean’s            University System Student Regent, Ebetesam
  May 26                          Award for Excellence in School of Allied              Attaya Islam, a second-year medical student from
  10:45 a.m.                      Health Sciences                                       Lubbock, represented the students.
  Resthaven Memorial
  Park
  5740 W. 19th St.                Three TTUHSC graduates receive military promotions
  Willed Body Program               Three TTUHSC graduates last week                    Lt. David Thomas was promoted to CPT, MC,
  memorial service.
                                  received their commissions or promotions by           USAF.
  For more information, call
  743-2700 or e-mail              the military.                                           The ceremony was led by Bernhard T.
  claude.lobstein@ttuhsc.edu.       U.S. Army Capt. Lauri Sullenger, N.C.,              Mittemeyer, M.D., professor of Urology and
                                  U.S.A., was promoted to CPT, MC, USA; U.S.            former interim president of TTUHSC. He
                                  Air Force 2nd Lt. Noel Colls, was promoted            also served in the military and is a three-star
                                  to CPT, MC, USAF; and U.S. Air Force 2nd              general.
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May 28
4 p.m.
2C103
Garrison Lecture Series on
Healthy Aging, Toby Risko,
M.D., Texas Tech Physicians-
Orthopaedics, “Knee
Update.”
                                               TTUHSC faculty members share what Memorial Day means to them
June 2-20
                                 Bernhard T. Mittemeyer, M.D., professor of Urology and former
TTUHSC                         interim president of TTUHSC, served 28 years in the Army.
The Department of
Speech, Language &             Mittemeyer retired as a Lieutenant General and from 1981 to 1985
                               served as Army Surgeon General, the highest position open to Army
Hearing Sciences is hosting
                               physicians.
Kid College Speech and
Language Summer Camps            Mittemeyer said Memorial Day is important because it reminds all
for children with language     Americans that those who served and fought for freedom or died for it
disabilities.
                               have a taste for our nation’s freedom that the protected will never know.
                                                                                                              Mittemeyer
For more information, call       “As medics we should always hold ourselves at the highest level of
743-5660.                      dedication and competence because we are taking care of those who take
                               care of our freedom,” he said.
June 10                          Richard Lampe, M.D., Department of Pediatrics chair, served in the
10 a.m.                        Army Medical Core for 24 years.
Covenant Board                 On Memorial Day last year, Lampe was volunteering his medical
Room, 3615 19th St.,           expertise at a camp near Baghdad, Iraq.
first floor                      Lampe remembered military personnel he worked with in Iraq chose
Announcement of                to celebrate Memorial Day on a Tuesday so that services honoring fallen
partnership to establish       war veterans would not be interrupted.
the Covenant Health              “Memorial Day was still recognized even in a hostile environment,” he            Lampe
System Endowed Chair in        said. “And it was all the more poignant because they were honoring their
Simulation and Nursing         friends who had died in combat just months before.”
Education in the TTUHSC
School of Nursing.               Myrna Armstrong, Ed.D., R.N., professor and regional dean of the
                               TTUHSC School of Nursing at Highland Lakes, served for 29 years in
June 12                        the U.S. Army Reserve Nurse Corps.
1 p.m.-4 p.m.                    Armstrong was activated for Desert Storm. She retired as a Colonel in
Garrison Institute on          2003.
Aging                            “I always have concerns for those serving our country, especially now
                               during our present war, but Memorial Day means a dedicated time to
6630 S. Quaker Ave.,           specifically honor those who have served,” she said. “Nursing provided
Suite E.                       me a wonderful way to serve my country — I benefited so much from              Armstrong
Reception honoring certified   my military and leadership training, field exercises, different types of
nurse’s aides in Lubbock.      health care delivery, and most of all the wonderful camaraderie from
Door prizes, refreshments.     officers and enlisted personnel.”
For more information, call
743-7821.                        Michael Keller, MBA, FACHE, program director and assistant
                               professor of the Clinical Services Management Program, is an active
                               reservist and an Iraq War veteran.
                                 “It is an honor to serve our country and to wear the uniform,” Keller
                               said. “I serve in order that I might give back, in some small way, to our
                               great country and to help preserve the freedoms that we enjoy.”
                                 Keller is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, Civil Affairs Branch.
                               He added, “Memorial Day is a day that is set aside to remember those
                               that have served our country and especially those that paid the ultimate           Keller
                               price with their lives.”
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              In brief                   Help for varicose veins is here
                                         Texas Tech Physicians of Lubbock-Surgery is
  Surendra Varma, M.D., associate
                                         now offering the VNUS Closure procedure, an
dean for Graduate Medical Education
for the School of Medicine and UMC       outpatient procedure to treat varicose veins.
J. Ted Hartman, M.D., Endowed              Samuel Campbell, M.D., and Dixon Santana,
Chair, was recently chosen by the        M.D., are utilizing the procedure which uses a
American Academy of Pediatrics to        small catheter and radio frequency energy to
serve as an editor on the Pediatric      seal the varicose vein.
Review Education Program                   The physicians make a single incision near the
Endocrinology Advisory Board.            knee and insert a slender catheter into the vein.
                                         The catheter is positioned, energized and slowly
The Office of Institutional
                                         withdrawn, sealing the vein.
Planning and Effectiveness
                                           The procedure requires no stitches and
and the Center for Social Work
Research will conduct the Higher         patients usually return to normal activity in a
Education Excellence Survey for all      day or two.
TTUHSC staff May 26 to June 13.            “Varicose veins affect 20 to 25 million
  This survey will gather opinions       Americans,” Campbell said. “Venous reflux,                     The valves in the saphenus vein are damaged
regarding a work environment,            often the underlying cause of varicose veins,                and the veins near the skin surface are stretched
pay and benefits, employee               frequently forces people to dramatically change              and distorted from the increased pressure
development, teamwork,                   their lifestyles, especially when they have                  caused by blood flowing in the wrong direction.
organization, communication and job      standing professions and can no longer tolerate                Venus reflux in the saphenous vein is often the
satisfaction.
                                         being on their feet all day.”                                underlying cause of varicose veins. Although
  Staff will receive an electronic
                                           Whether the initial cause is genetics,                     the condition is rarely life-threatening, it is often
survey via e-mail from the Center
                                         pregnancy, prolonged standing, excess weight,                painful and unattractive, he said.
for Social Work Research or a
paper copy of the survey. All survey     inadequate exercise or a damaged saphenous                     For more information about the VNUS
responses will be anonymous and          vein, the physiology of varicose veins is nearly             Closure procedure, call Texas Tech Physicians-
will be submitted directly to the        always the same, Santana said.                               Surgery at 743-2373.
Center for Social Work Research.

The American Diabetes Association’s      Alzheimer’s event serves up fun, raises money for research
Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes is 8
a.m. Sept. 27 at Mackenzie Park, and
now is the time to join a team and
start raising money.
TTUHSC faculty, students and staff
may join the TTUHSC Fightin’ Isets
or another team to help fund life-
saving diabetes research in Lubbock.
All funds benefit local diabetes
research.
 For more information, visit              Tennis pro Luke Jensen, Susie Hance and Paula                 Luke Jensen, from left, Charles Key, middle, tennis
http://main.diabetes.org or e-mail        Grammas, executive director of the Garrison                   pro Christo van Rensburn and Richard Hope, M.D.,
angelia.heare@ttuhsc.edu.                 Institute on Aging, participate in a live auction at the      share a laugh before competing in the doubles
                                          Institute’s fundraiser Serving Up Prevention.                 exhibition match during Serving Up Prevention.

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