EM 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. TTUHSC 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: TTUHSC 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: TTUHSC 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.

Undergrad: Brigham Young University.

Medical School: Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Residency: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency.

Favorite thing about El Paso: So many things I love about living here: great weather, friendly people, and the opportunities for outdoor recreation are some of the biggest. It’s such an easy place to live. Plus, it’s the closest I’ve been to living on the “frontier” while still having city amenities.

Favorite thing about your job: I love working with the residents. I’m almost always looking forward to a shift in the ER, because it feels like a chance to spend more time with my friends.

Academic/educational/research interests: Austere medicine, including tactical, wilderness, EMS, disaster, and global medicine.

Undergrad: The University of Arizona.

Medical School: The University of Arizona.

Residency: TTUHSC 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.

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: University of Arizona

Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine

Residency: University of Toledo

Favorite thing about El Paso: The weather

Favorite thing about your job: My coworkers

Academic/educational/research interests: Ultrasound, Wilderness medicine, military medicine

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: Clark University.

Medical School: UMass.

Residency: IM residency and EM fellowship.

Favorite thing about El Paso: Bilingual City, Good Hiking.

Favorite thing about your job: Talking to residents, Challenge of making diagnosis, learning more about medicine.

Academic/educational/research interests: I had a career conducting clinical trials for 25+ years. I have research expertise in Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Resuscitation and AMI evaluation and treatment.

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.