Medical Alumni Association

Dr. Catherine Ronaghan

School of Medicine

Dr. Priscilla Carter-Snodgrass and
Dr. Brad Snodgrass

School of Medicine Community Outreach

Dr. Gorden E. Schutze

Research Scientist for the School of Medicine

Ronaghan is a partner in a private practice at Medical Arts Clinic of Lubbock Inc. and serves as medical director of the Arrington Comprehensive Breast Center. She got her medical degree in 1986 from TTUHSC and served her internship and residency at Cornell University Medical College in New York. She is on the board of directors for the state chapter of the American Cancer Society and is chair of the Texas Medical Association's Committee on Cancer. Additionally, she has been a long-time advisor for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, devoting many volunteer hours to that organization.

Priscilla Carter-Snodgrass and Brad Snodgrass have sponsored the annual Scrub Party, an event for incoming medical students, at their home for the past six years. The couple also is active in the American Cancer Society's Cattle Baron's Ball, and they encourage medical students to participate as well. Cater-Snodgrass is in private practice at Southwest Diagnostic Clinic and serves as medical director for infection control and prevention at Covenant Health System. She earned her medical degree in 1988 and completed post-graduate studies in the department of internal medicine at TTUHSC in 1993.

Snodgrass is the chief of staff at Covenant Medical Center and practices at Southwest Diagnostic Clinic in Lubbock. In addition, he also is a clinical assistant professor in the Health Sciences Center's Department of Internal Medicine. He received his medical degree in 1988 from TTUHSC and completed his residency in 1992 at University Medical Center.

Schutze is a nationally recognized academic pediatrician whose research interest focuses on epidemiology and the clinical impact of bacterial pathogens. His research accomplishments have been recognized with acceptance into the Society for Pediatric Research, an elite international society of physician scientists whose research benefits children, and with an award from the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute. After graduating from TTUHSC, Schutze completed an internship, residency and fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. He is currently on staff at Arkansas Children's Hospital and is director of the Department of Pediatrics Residency Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.