Faculty and Staff

Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS in biomedical engineering.

Medical School:  Washington University School of Medicine, St.  Louis, MO.

Residency: Combined Internal Medicine/ Emergency Medicine Residency, McGaw Medical   Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Favorite thing about El Paso: The people, second favorite, the weather.

Favorite thing about your job: The ability to make our Department, resident and student training and UMC ED operations and patient experience better!

Academic/educational/research interests: Clinical research including novel diagnostics, therapeutics, new therapies, nerve blocks for treating migraine and other headaches.

Undergrad: NMSU.

Medical School: Midwestern University.

Fellowship: University of New Mexico

Residency: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.

Favorite thing about El Paso: The people.

Favorite thing about your job: Residents.

Academic/educational/research interests: Prehospital medicine.

Undergrad: B.S. Computer Science, University of North Texas.

Medical School: TTUHSC School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, 1994.

Residency: TTUHSC Department of Emergency Medicine, El Paso, TX 1995-1998; Preliminary Residency, Internal Medicine, TTUHSC Department of Internal Medicine, Lubbock, TX 1994-1995.

Favorite thing about El Paso: High desert climate, access to mountain and desert wilderness, sunsets.

Favorite thing about your job: Teamwork.

Academic/educational/research interests: Integrating academic EM / hospital ED operations, nurse / physician ED teamwork, regulatory issues, documentation, coding, reimbursement, billing and privacy compliance, risk management.

Undergrad: New Mexico State.

University: “Home of the real and only Aggies!”

Medical School: St. George's University School of Medicine.

Residency: LSUHSC-Shreveport.

Favorite thing about El Paso: The people and the food!

Favorite thing about your job: There are many aspects of the job I enjoy. First is the patients. I find our population to be kind and appreciative of the care provided. I enjoy working with and teaching the residents, who are intelligent and motivated learners. Texas Tech Health El Paso also allows for a wide variety of medical and trauma cases, which helps to keep me sharp and to grow as a physician.

Academic/educational/research interests: Teaching residents in both the emergency department and hospitalist setting. Simulation development. International medical missions. Tactical medicine and fellowship program development.

Undergrad: Colorado College - Physics.

Medical School: Rush University.

Residency: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.

Favorite thing about El Paso: El Paso has wonderful people and diverse opportunities for year-round outdoor activities.

Favorite thing about your job: Ability to learn and experience new things every day on shift from patients and colleagues.

Medical School: Kyoto University.

Residency: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.

Favorite thing about El Paso: People and climate.

Academic/educational/research interests: Reducing diagnostic errors.

Undergrad: Washington.

Medical School:  Chicago Medical School.

Residency: Texas Tech Health El Paso.

Favorite thing about El Paso: friendly and kind community.

Favorite thing about your job: genuine patients, committed residents.

Academic/educational/research interests: oral boards.

Undergrad:  North Dakota State University.

Medical School: University of Chicago.

Residency:  Cook County Emergency Medicine.

Favorite thing about El Paso:  Not having to scrape my windshield in the winter.

Favorite thing about your job:  Caring for an extremely grateful patient population.

Academic/educational/research interests:  Airway management, Education.

Undergrad: UC San Diego.

Medical School: Creighton.

Residency: Texas Tech Health El Paso.

Favorite thing about El Paso: mountain biking, Cloudcroft, brief mild winters, no traffic.

Favorite thing about your job: the camaraderie, from top to bottom, you won’t find a finer group of faculty or residents to team up with.

Academic/educational/research interests: global health, professionalism, medical student education.

Undergrad: Montana State University-Billings.

Grad School: Southern California College of Optometry.

Medical School: Ross University.

Residency: LSUHSC-Shreveport.

Favorite thing about El Paso: people, weather, sunsets, mountains.

Favorite thing about your job: watching residents progress to become conscientious and capable emergency physicians, comradery.

Academic/educational/research interests: Procedural sedation, withdrawal syndromes.

Medical School: Jagiellonian University Medical College

Residency: Texas Tech Health El Paso, Department of Emergency Medicine

Fellowship: EMS-Fellowship in Emergency Medical Services at University of Tennessee 
Chattanooga Health Sciences Center

Favorite thing about El Paso: The size and people of the city - not too big and not too small -
with a rich culture and a patient population that is phenomenal to work for and work with

Favorite thing about your job: Aside from the joys of practicing medicine and teaching 
future clinicians, I’m living out all my inner 5-year old’s dreams: working with paramedics, 
firefighters, police, rocket scientists, pilots, etc!

Academic/educational/research interests: Pre-hospital medicine

Undergrad: The University of Arizona.

Medical School: The University of Arizona.

Residency: Texas Tech Health El Paso.

Fellowship: Emergency Ultrasound- The University of Arizona.

Favorite thing about El Paso: Easy access to the outdoors, sunshine, friendly people.

Favorite thing about your job: Interacting with our kind and grateful patients, seeing interesting pathology, teaching students and residents (especially about the ultrasound stuff!), helping with the annual wilderness medicine retreat.

Academic/educational/research interests: Ultrasound, Wilderness Medicine.

Medical School: University of Arizona, College of Medicine

Residency: Texas Tech Health El Paso, Department of Emergency Medicine

Fellowship: Texas Tech Health El Paso, Tactical Medicine Fellowship

Undergrad: University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Medical School: Kansas City University.

Residency: Charleston Area Medical Center - WVU.

Favorite thing about El Paso: Weather, People, and Franklin Mountains.

Favorite thing about your job: Variety – clinical shifts, educating residents and students, being involved administratively.

Academic/educational/research interests: UME to GME transition, ED patient flow, and ED Clinical Operations.

Undergrad:  Colorado College

Medical School:  Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Residency:  Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Fellowship:  Medical Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Favorite thing about El Paso:  Lots of sunshine.

Favorite thing about your job:  You can really feel like you're making a positive difference in your patients' lives in El Paso.

Academic/educational/research interests:  Anything tox!  Especially rattlesnake envenomation.

Undergrad:  Indiana University.

Grad school: MS Polymer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, MBA, Case Western University.

Med School:  Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Residency:  EM & IM Lansing, MI.

Favorite thing about El Paso:  Blue sky, sunshine, warm.

Favorite thing about your job: teaching residents, helping patients.

Academic/educational/research interests: ED/hospital throughput, quality, palliative care.

Medical School: Medical University - Sofia.

Residency: University of Virginia.

Favorite thing about El Paso: cosmopolitan and sunny.

Favorite thing about your job: happy residents.

Academic/educational/research interests: airway, education, simulation, social aspects of EM.

Undergrad: University of Texas at El Paso – BS.

Grad school: New Mexico State University - MPH; University of Texas at El Paso - PhD.

Favorite thing about El Paso: The star on the Franklin Mountain.

Favorite thing about your job: Working with awesome people.