Faculty
Professor
Chairman
Hunt Family Endowed Chair in Psychiatry
Director, Southwest Brain Bank
Dr. Peter Thompson is a professor and the Hunt Family Endowed Chair of Psychiatry. He also serves as the Director of the Mood Disorders division and the Director of the Southwest Brain Bank. He had established the first brain bank at University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and now at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.
Dr. Thompson completed his Psychiatry Residency at Tufts University/New England Medical Center and Psychobiology Fellowship at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Thompson’s academic career is dedicated to developing improved treatments for moods disorders and educating the next generation of psychiatrists
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Program Director – Transmountain Psychiatry Residency Program
Dr. Pamela Lopez is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Transmountain. She currently supervises medical students at the outpatient clinic and residents and students on the consultation-liaison service at University Medical Center.
As a native El Pasoan, Dr. Lopez returned to practice medicine in El Paso to provide care to a population that is near and dear to her heart. She completed medical school at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas and then went on to complete her psychiatry training in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. She completed her general psychiatry residency there as well as a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry (formerly psychosomatic medicine). Her main interest is in consultation-liaison psychiatry. Dr. Lopez is very passionate about teaching and looks forward to helping mold the next generation of psychiatrists.
Assistant Professor , Residency Associate Program Director, Psychiatry
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Director, Child and Adolescent Division, Transmountain campus
Dr. Aisha Shariq is an Assistant Professor in Department of Psychiatry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. She is very involved in teaching medical students, CAP fellows and psychiatry residents. She also serves as the psychiatry director at the El Paso County Juvenile Justice Center. Dr. Shariq is involved with the Texas Child Mental Health Consortium on several projects. She provides psychiatric consultation to primary care providers treating children with mental illnesses and treats school children through TCHATT.
She is very involved in teaching medical students, CAP fellows and psychiatry residents. She also serves as the psychiatry director at the El Paso County Juvenile Justice Center. Dr. Shariq is involved with the Texas Child Mental Health Consortium on several projects. She provides psychiatric consultation to primary care providers treating children with mental illnesses and treats school children through TCHATT.
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Dr. Khan is the associate residency program director of the TTUHSC El Paso psychiatry residency program on the Alberta campus.
After getting his bachelor's degree in the humanities from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Khan completed his medical education at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2011 then completed an osteopathic family medicine residency at Mclaren Health System in Michigan and a psychiatry residency at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Missouri.
During medical school and residency, Dr. Khan scored above average on all three steps of the medical board exams, won the "highest score on the PRITE exam" award twice during his psychiatry residency, and scored above average on the specialty boards.
He enjoys working with students and residents and has helped hundreds of them succeed on their board exams, including many students and residents who would have otherwise not made it through medical school or residency due to academic difficulties.
Dr. Khan specializes in helping patients and students with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, chronic pain (including musculoskeletal tension due to anxiety), and academic stressors.