The J.T. & Margaret Talkington Department of Internal Medicine - Lubbock

On behalf of the Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock, Texas, I invite you to become acquainted with our department. This web site describes the people, resources, facilities and communities associated with Internal Medicine.

Internal Medicine strongly supports each of the three missions of the School of Medicine education, research and patient care. We welcome you to further explore our website or contact us directly for more information regarding our department.

Our Mission 

We are the foundation of healthcare striving to improve health and well-being through excellence in patient care, education and research.

Our Goals

• Patient care: To provide high quality, comprehensive, personalized, and humanistic medical care with integrity and compassion guided by best evidence.
• Education: To educate and inspire the next generation of physicians who will prevent disease when possible, manage chronic conditions when necessary, and support patients and families always wherever their journeys may lead by prioritizing a culture of collaborative, evidence-based practice and role modeling emotional well-being.
• Research: To discover & disseminate evidence-based approaches to enable personalized, high-value care to improve the health of both individuals and the community.

Our Values

• We embrace the university core values: One Team, Kindhearted, Integrity, Visionary, and Beyond Service⁠—we aim to align with those values on a daily basis.
• We are making strides in healthcare: better clinical outcomes, improved patient experience, more affordable care, and better provider job satisfaction.

- Scott Shurmur, MD

Kumuda Das, PhD
Professor and Director of Cardiopulmonary Research
 

Pulak Manna, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
 

Sharma Prabhakar, MD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Physiology
 

Sharda Singh, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director of Basic Research, Department of Internal Medicine,
Division of Hematology/Oncology

• Prevention of Age-associated cardiac and vascular dysfunction through Nrf2 signaling using the nutritional supplement Sulforaphane
  S. Singh
  L22-024
• Phase II trial of effects of the Nutritional Supplement Sulforaphane on Doxorubicin-Associated Cardiac Dysfunction
  S. Singh
  L19-065
• Detour II
  PQ Bypass Inc
  M. Ansari
  NCT03119233
• XIENCE 90: A Safety Evaluation of 3-month DAPT After XIENCE Implantation for HBR Patients
  Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
  M. Ansari
  NCT03218787
• Registrational Study With Omecamtiv Mecarbil/AMG 423 to Treat Chronic Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction
  Amgen, Inc.
  N. Nair
  NCT02929329
• Real World Registry Assessing the Clinical Use of the Bard UltraScore Forced Focus PTA Balloon
  Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
  M. Ansari
  NCT03193619
• Observational Study for the Evaluation of Long-term Safety of Radium-223 Used for the Treatment of Metastatic Castration Resistant Postate Cancer
  Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 
  C. Torres
  NCT02141438
• The DES BTK Vascular Stent System vs PTA in Subjects With Critical Limb Ischemia
  Boston Scientific Corporation
  M. Ansari
  NCT03551496
• RANGER Paclitaxel Coated Balloon vs Standard Balloon Angioplasty
  Boston Scientific Corporation
  M. Ansari
  NCT03064126
• A Study of Nivolumab or Nivolumab Plus Experimental Medication BMS-986205 With or Without Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) in BCG Unresponsive Bladder Cancer That Has Not Invaded Into the Muscle Wall of the Bladder
  Bristol Myers Squibb Company
  S. Awasthi
  NCT03519256
• A Neoadjuvant Study of Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab or Nivolumab Plus Chemotherapy Versus Chemotherapy Alone in Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
  Bristol Myers Squibb Company
  S. Awasthi
  NCT02998528
• Evaluation of the FreedomFlow Orbital Atherectomy System to Treat Peripheral Artery Disease
  Cardio Flow, Inc
  M. Ansari
  NCT03635190
• Connect MDS/AML Disease Registry
  Celgene Corporation
  N. D'Cunha
  NCT01688011
• JET-RANGER Trial - JETStream Atherectomy With Adjunctive Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Angioplasty vs Plain Old Balloon Angioplasty Followed by Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon
  Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation
  M. Ansari
  NCT03206762
• Study of Liposomal Annamycin for the Treatment of Subjects With Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
  Moleculin Biotech Inc.
  S. Awasthi
  NCT03315039
• A Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of MOR208 With Bendamustine (BEN) Versus Rituximab (RTX) With BEN in Adult Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)
  MorphoSys AG
  L. Tijani
  NCT02763319
• Palbociclib in Real World Practice
  Pfizer, Inc.
  C. Jones
  NCT03280303

For more information on clinical trials, please visit clinicaltrials.gov

• Aging
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Cardiopulmonary
• Huntington’s Disease
• Infectious Disease
• Nephrology
• Oncology & Hematology

Federal

• National Institutes of Health
• U.S. Dept of Defense
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Grants.gov

Private

• Foundation Center
• American Heart Association
• American Diabetes Association
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• The CH Foundation
• The Retirement Research Foundation

State

• Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
• Texas Health and Human Services
• Texas eGrants Application

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The Southwest Journal of Medicine is an open-access online publication first published on January 15, 2013. We publish original articles, reviews, commentary on public policy, educational updates, case reports, images, and letters. SWJM is sponsored and supported by the Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas. The sponsoring organization is a large, state supported health sciences center with extensive experience in education, medical care,  and research. From January 2013 through January 2025, the journal was published under the name The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles.

The Editorial Board maintains the scientific integrity of this journal and its operation.  All members of the Editorial Board have significant experience in teaching, clinical care, and/or clinical research. The Editor has worked in pulmonary and critical care medicine for nearly 40 years. His research experience has included basic science studies using animal models and in vitro techniques and clinical studies using prospective and retrospective design and literature review.  The Editorial Board has a significant aggregate experience in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, and data analysis. All Editorial Board members are based in departments of internal medicine at medical schools or health science centers or in departments of statistics at universities. 

The journal is currently indexed in Google Scholar and DOAJ

Below is the link to the journal.

www.swjm.org

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