Episode 237 StatlineTV 10/17/25

Welcome back to StatlineTV — your go-to weekly source for news, stories, and celebrations from around TTUHSC. Relax, watch, and share your favorite moments in the comments below! 👇

❣️ Recognition Days

Next week is National Healthcare Quality Week and National Pharmacy Week.

🔢 Stat of the Week

The Wellness Center has served 8,729 students, staff, and faculty members since the beginning of the year!

• Highlight your team’s work by submitting a future Stat of the Week at statlinetv@ttuhsc.edu or through this link: https://qrco.de/bgGvbo

• Thanks to Dustin Barnett for this week’s stat!

📅 Announcements & Events

🙌 Health Services & Wellness Opportunities

• Flu Shots in Amarillo

• OCT 20-24 | Mon–Fri | 8:30–12p & 1:30–5p

• Available at the Amarillo Pharmaceutical Care Center, located inside the Texas Tech Physicians building

• Amarillo Fall Medication Cleanout

• OCT 25 | 10a–2p | 1400 S. Coulter Street

• Safely dispose of unused or expired medications.

• Student volunteers needed!

• medicationcleanout.com 

🎓 Educational Events & Research Opportunities

• Center for Excellence in Real-World Evidence Series
  Penicillin Allergy Labels and Delabeling: Insights from Integrated Health System Data

• Join Dr. Carlos Alvarez and featured presenter Dr. Reuben Arasaratnam

• WED | OCT 22 | 12p

• Join Zoom | More Info

• 3rd Annual West Texas Health Disparities Research Symposium

• SAT | NOV 8 | El Paso

• Questions? Contact thinktank@ttuhsc.edu or visit ttusthinktank.org.

• Save the Date – UMC Trauma Conference

• SAT | OCT 25 | 7:15a–5:30p

• Earn 8 IPCE credits

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alison Wilson

• TTUHSC’s Garrison Institute on Aging

• Hosting three Alzheimer’s Awareness Symposium events in November

• NOV 1 | NOV 11 | NOV 18 — each with different topics

• Contact GIA@ttuhsc.edu for details.

💬 Community Engagement & Awareness

• Handwritten Letters – Last Call!

• Today’s the last day to turn in your letters.

• Submit to your local CBOO or Bryce.

• CBOO Info: https://www.fiscal.ttuhsc.edu/finance/cbo.aspx 

• Human Sex Trafficking Symposium

• Hosted by LWBIWH, in partnership with TTUHSC and Northwest Texas Healthcare System

• FRI | OCT 24 | 9a–12p

• Registration: $25 for CME credit

• Register Here

🎥 The Good Stuff

• Research Spotlight

• Dr. Balakrishna Koneru, TTUHSC researcher and assistant professor of pediatrics, has been awarded a $198,822 CPRIT grant to study a type of pediatric bone cancer—a two-year project advancing cancer research in Texas.

🎬 Feature

📬 Feedback Readback, where we read your actual messages, unedited and unfiltered

💻 IT Security Champion Tip of the Week

🃏 Values Highlight of the Week

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