Episode 241 StatlineTV 12/5/25

Welcome back to StatlineTV! Thanks for tuning in to another weekly round-up of news, stories, and celebrations from across TTUHSC. Settle in, catch up, and drop your favorite moments in the comments below!

Recognition Day 

• It’s National Influenza Vaccination Week

Stat of the Week

• Last year, the HSC Immigration Compliance & Services team filed 59 applications and secured a 100% approval rate, supporting global talent from countries around the world.

• Highlight your team’s or area’s work by submitting a Stat of the Week:
  statlinetv@ttuhsc.edu | https://qrco.de/bgGvbo

• 13th Annual TTUHSC Staff Senate Deck the Halls Decor Contest

• Submissions for personal or team space accepted until DEC 8 at 5:00 p.m.

• https://www.canva.com/design/DAG4ardz_pQ/kbcSeOk_aVzCneuhMIrKHA/view?utm_content=DAG4ardz_pQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h40c4352be9#6 

• Save the Date for your campus’s holiday party:

• PB | Boots & Bling | Dec 5 | 6–10 p.m. | Dos Amigos | 18+ plus-one, RSVP req. | Bring a blanket for the humane society

• ABI | Dec 10 | 11–1 | Grace Museum

• LBK | Dec 12 | 3 p.m. | AEC

• AMA | Dec 17 | Time Change: 11:30–1:30 p.m. | SOP 1st Fl

• DAL | Dec 18 | 6–9 p.m. | Regine’s Lounge

• Abilene Texas Nursing Student Association — Hot Cocoa Finals Cram Social

• Stop by Sway Cafe in Room 2000 on DEC 9 at 6 p.m.

• https://www.instagram.com/p/DRxhGO8j1EN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

• Catch HSC Huddle next week — DEC 11 at Noon

• Join to hear about research, Odessa’s Call Center, mental health, and more.

• Check your inbox to add to your calendar or click this link: https://mediaspace.ttuhsc.edu/channel/channelid/192449453 

• AMA Blood Drive — Look for the Bloodmobile

• DEC 11 | 9:30–11:30 a.m. | Long-sleeve Scrooge shirt

• Schedule your appointment: https://www.instagram.com/p/DR16mMggSZc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

• Lubbock Team Member Free Professional Headshot Day

• DEC 15 | 9–11 a.m. | PSL, 1st floor, Production Studio 126

• Contact anakrayo@ttuhsc.edu

• TTUHSC Libraries — From Reading to Leading

• A 6-month cohort exploring leadership lessons through fantasy novels, featuring the Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros.

• Open to all staff, faculty, and students — supervisor approval required.

• https://info.ttuhsc.edu/hscannouncements/From-Reading-To-Leading/E194039360

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jerry Carrino, accepted as a Distinguished Fellow of the Public Health Academy of the National Academies of Practice.

🎉 Congratulations to PB residency program director Dr. Okwuwa, sworn in as president of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, and to Dr. Adrian Billings, PB’s Associate Academic Dean of Rural and Community Engagement, sworn in as president-elect.

• https://www.instagram.com/p/DRrgiiKGNbU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Basem Soliman, TTUP surgeon and Amarillo associate professor of surgery, recipient of the 2025 Inpatient Physician of the Year Award from Northwest Texas Healthcare System.

• https://www.instagram.com/p/DRqb34CgTht/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== 

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Muhammad Bilal Abid, who joined the SOM as an associate professor of internal medicine and medical director of TTUHSC’s Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Program.

• https://dailydose.ttuhsc.edu/2025/november/abid-hematology-oncology.aspx

🎉 Thank you and congratulations to alum Dr. Susan Davis (SOM ’84), named TDCJ Montford Employee of the Month for November — recognized for exceptional care and for donating her personal vehicle to a widowed father of four.

🎉 Check out Drs. Ben Thiravetyan and Chanokporn Pchongmart, internal medicine residents, who represented TTUHSC at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation 2025 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Conference in San Francisco.

• https://www.instagram.com/p/DRzlQuXDN19/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

🎉 Congratulations to the FMHIRCH team, who presented posters at National Rural Health Day in ODE; ITDI received the Dr. Charles Sponsel Rural Healthcare Organization Pioneer Award.

• https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DBxbbcvYi/

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