The Southwest Brain Bank is a research organization that collects, studies, and distributes brain tissue to scientists that study psychiatric illness. The purpose of this research is to understand how the brain works and how it changes when someone has a psychiatric illness. Studying brain tissue enables scientists to develop new approaches to diagnosis and improve treatments. Obtaining brain tissue from those with and without illnesses is essential to continue this important work.

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Brain Bank Personnel:

Research:

• Valeria Erives, M.S.
  Research Aide 
  E-mail:verives@ttuhsc.edu
• Peter M. Thompson, M.D., M.S.,
  Director,
  Email: pm.thompson@ttuhsc.edu
• Javier Vargas- Medrano, PhD.
  Research Lab Manager
  Email: Javier.vargas@ttuhsc.edu
• Guadalupe Vidal, Ph.D.
  Senior Research Scientist 
  E-mail: gvidalma@ttuhsc.edu

 

Pathologists:

Medical Examiners:

El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner
4505 Alberta Avenue
El Paso, Texas 79905

Chief Medical Examiner
Mario A Rascon, MD, MHCM.

Irene Santiago
Chief of Operations

 

Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office
Physical Address
7337 Louis Pasteur Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229

Kimberley Molina, M.D.
Chief Medical Examiner