Laura W. Bush Institute at Lubbock: Education
Education
Through collaborative efforts where disciplines converge,
a new and vibrant body of knowledge will be created.
Building within West Texas, the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health is uniquely positioned to finding better ways to educate, diagnose and treat women of all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds, because good health should not be limited by such boundaries. The LWBIWH strives to establish not just another women's health institute, but a women's health institute that pioneers clinical, research and educational programs in rural, diverse, and underserved populations.
Lubbock Education Opportunities
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Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference
On August 20, 2009, the LWBIWH co-sponsored the Third Annual Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference, with the Texas Tech Center for Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. Among the invited plenary speakers was Carmen Hinojosa-Laborde, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, who spoke on “Postmenopausal hypertension: Role of estrogen, age and salt-sensitivity.” Additional presentations from LWBIWH-funded investigators included “Effect of Triacsin C on cytokine stimulated iNOS expression in C6 astrocytes” by Margaret Weis, Ph.D., from the School of Pharmacy in Amarillo and “Identification of heritage-related genetic determinants of cardiovascular diseases in Mexican-Americans and Caucasians” by Parastoo Momeni, PhD, from the Department of Internal Medicine in Lubbock.
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Parastoo Momeni, Ph.D., Margaret Weis, Ph.D., Betsy Goebel Jones, Ed.D, Carmen Hinojosa-Laborde, Ph.D.