Department of Neurology
Overview
The Department of Neurology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of medicine was founded in 1976 to provide training to medical students and residents. It also served patients in the region with neurological conditions.
The curriculum of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine provides students with extensive training in neurology throughout their four years in medical school. Neurology faculty also trains residents specializing in internal medicine, family practice, psychiatry, and pediatrics.
Patients with a variety of neurological conditions are seen daily in the outpatient clinic located at the El Paso Psychiatric Center located on campus.
Since 1990, the department has had an Epilepsy Services contract with the Texas Department of State Health Services and has operated an uninterrupted, expanding and successful epilepsy program for El Paso and Far West Texas.
The Department continues to collaborate with several entities in the community including the University Medical Center, El Paso Sleep Center, El Paso Psychiatric Center, and Sierra Medical Center.
Patient Care
Texas Tech Physicians (TTP) brings together the largest network of physicians and health care professionals in West Texas. Because our physicians are also teachers, they remain up-to-date on new treatments and diagnostics, not only to care for their patients, but to pass that knowledge on to resident physicians, physicians studying in fellowships and medical school students. This means our patients receive the quality healthcare they deserve.
TTP Department of Neurology offers treatment to adults for a multitude of conditions including:
| • Epilepsy | • Neuromuscular diseases | • Headache |
| • Spinal Cord Diseases | • Stroke | • Peripheral Neuropathy |
| • Multiple Sclerosis | • Parkinson’s Disease | • Dementia |
Offices are located in the El Paso Psychiatric Center at 4615 Alameda Ave. To make an appointment or for more information, please call 915.545-6703.
David F. Briones, M.D., DFAPA
Interim Chair for the Department of Neurology, Professor and
Vice Chair, Psychiatry
Dr. Briones served as the Regional Chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry at the School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences University at El Paso between 1978 and 1996 and has served as Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Jan 2007 - 2009, and Neurology since June 2007. He became a full tenured Professor in 1990. Dr. Briones began his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas between 1967-1971. He then completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, Texas in 1974. He founded the Regional Department of Psychiatry in El Paso in 1976 and has developed and maintained private and teaching child, adolescent and adult outpatient psychiatry services on and off-campus and has provided psychiatric care focusing on Mood, Anxiety and Sleep Disorders, provider/attending faculty to teaching services with medical student and resident trainees in outpatient, inpatient, Consultation-Liaison and community agency settings. Dr. Briones was honored as a Distinguished Life Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association in 2005.