Leadership

Executive Director

National Advisory Board

Community Advisory Board

Scientific Council

 

Executive Director's Message

Welcome to the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Explore these pages, and you'll be inspired by the efforts of professionals and volunteers across this great state. Read about programs and women's health screening that could impact your life or the life of someone you love.

The Institute was founded in 2007 to promote research specific to women's health, to provide advanced education to health care professionals and to enrich the lives of women and girls through community programs and health screening.

The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health is growing each year and reaching more girls and women with empowering messages and real solutions. Programs that began in Amarillo, Lubbock and San Angelo have spread across the state to Abilene Midland, Odessa, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Corpus Christi.

Our National Advisory Board, including Mrs. Laura Bush, meets twice each year to discuss the Institute's progress, share the unique needs of each community and bring new ideas for research, education and community service.

Please join us by attending events, volunteering, becoming a research partner or by supporting the mission to make the lives of girls and women healthier and more fulfilling. I look forward to meeting you!

Warmest regards,
Connie Tyne
Executive Director

Connie Tyne

National Advisory Board

The National Advisory board is a group of community leaders across Texas who share a passion for improving women's health. The members come from varied backgrounds and advise the Executive Director on ways to advance and enhance the Institute's mission and programs while serving as ambassadors for the Institute.

National Advisory Board

Pictured:

Standing:

Connie Tyne, Maggie Murchison, Lee Ann White, Kit Moncrief, Meredith Land, Lana Andrews, Laura Bush, Donna Williams, Christy McClendon, Norman Dozier, Sheryl Pfluger, Larry Gill

Seated:

Gloria Hicks, Jan Rees-Jones, Elyse Lewis, Margaret Purvis, Nancy Neal, Marjorie Jenkins, Laura Street, Karmen Bryant, Jackie Martin, Sondra Eoff, Elizabeth Webb, Diana Strauss, Kimberly Whitman

Not Pictured:

Gloria Hicks, Jan Rees-Jones, Elyse Lewis, Margaret Purvis, Nancy Neal, Marjorie Jenkins, Laura Street, Karmen Bryant, Jackie Martin, Sondra Eoff, Elizabeth Webb, Diana Strauss, Kimberly Whitman

Community Advisory Board

Background

The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health was founded in 2008.  It has worked with TTUHSC faculty members, organizations, hospitals, and experts in women’s health to create a network of researchers, practicing health care providers, and community activists who strive for better education and improved standards of care for women.

 

Vision

To maintain a national position as leaders in women’s health and to promote personalized medicine throughout Texas and the nation, while remaining committed to enriching the lives of women and girls in our communities.

 

Mission

To promote health, individually inspired, through scientific investigation, translation of science into practice, and providing outreach that impacts each community.

 

Purpose

The Permian Basin Community Advisory Board (CAB) exists to embody the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health throughout the Permian Basin.  The CAB’s purpose is to recommend programs and partnerships that support the mission of the Institute.  That may include educational programs, public relations, fundraising and promotions.  Ideas and suggestions from CAB members are discussed at meetings and given every consideration.  The CAB is a non-governing board with no fiduciary liability.

 

Expectations of Members

  • Enthusiastically serve as a community liaison by sharing the Institute’s mission and vision.
  • Share your talent, experience and expertise to improve the Institute’s ability to meet the needs of women and girls in the Permian Basin.
  • Provide strategic input with perspective, guidance and advice on programs, outreach, messaging and community trends.
  • Attend CAB meetings regularly.
  • Assist with one fundraising event each year. Purchase a sponsorship and/or sell sponsorship tables for the fundraising event.

Abilene, Texas

  • Megan Allred 

  • Ruth Bargainer-Tobin 

  • Emerald Cassidy 

  • Lisa Chavez

  • Stephanie DeLaGarza

  • Trish Dressen

  • Katie Gore 

  • Joy Ellinger 

  • Mary Gill 

  • Susan Greenwood, DNP 

  • Dr. Ashley Hall 

  • Kaye Price-Hawkins 

  • Karla Hutchinson 

  • Sue McWilliams 

  • Dr. Katherine Rinard 

  • Dr. Jackie Zimmerman

Amarillo, Texas

  • Melody Alexander

  • Mary Bagwell

  • Denise Blanchard

  • Laresa Chesley

  • Sonja Clark

  • Meaghan Collier

  • Cindy Cunningham

  • Beth Duke

  • Ana Estevez

  • Amy Henderson

  • Toni Knapp

  • Mary Nell Lemert

  • Summer Loneragan

  • Suzi McKee

  • Julie Mitchell

  • Anne Prentice

  • Julie Puckett

  • Alicia Raffkind

  • Vicky Richmond

  • Carolyn Sherrod

  • Laura Street

  • Shauna Thornhill

  • Courtney Vanderham

  • Nancy Williams

  • Lea Wright

Lubbock, Texas

  • Sarah Cypert

  • Jessica Gray

  • Linda Greenstreet

  • Donna Griffis

  • Ashley Hamm

  • Heather Hocker

  • Lacy Johnson

  • Paula Key

  • Kendra Lansdell

  • Charity Leeson

  • Liane Locke

  • Christy McClendon

  • Amanda Mead

  • Cyndy Morris

  • Prim Naegele

  • Nancy Neal

  • Ainsley Nelson

  • Cathy Porter

  • Jill Shanklin

  • Emily Stephens

  • Amy Thompson

  • Andrea Tirey

  • Connie Tyne

  • Sarah Wakefield

  • Nancy Weiss

  • Karen Worley

Permian Basin, Texas

  • Connie Tyne
  • Nimat Alam, MD
  • Miranda Crow
  • Peggy Dean
  • Renee’ Henderson-Earls
  • Sondra Eoff*
  • Graciella Flores
  • Tatum Hubbard Fulbright
  • Cristina Gil
  • Mara Hobbs
  • Haley Trevino Martinez
  • Brenda Medlock
  • Mari Willis
  • Jessica Zuniga
  • Ginny Allen
  • Karmen Hendrix Bryant*
  • Stephanie Caples, PhD
  • Whitney S. Craig DrPH, MPH, CPM
  • Bethany Etheredge
  • Stacey Galloway
  • Margaret Purvis
  • Pam Rasmussen
  • Melanie Saiz
  • Heidi Winkler
  • Kathryn Hutton, DO, FACOG, Regional Director
  • Sandra Fuglaar
  • Kendall Gray, Director of Community Outreach
 
 

Scientific Council 2021-2022

Marjorie Jenkins, MD

Marjorie Jenkins, MD

Marjorie Jenkins, MD, is the founder of the Laura Bush Institute and a member of the National Advisory Board. Dr. Jenkins is the Dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, and the Chief Academic Officer for Prisma Health Upstate. She is the co-author of Eat Like a Woman with Staness Jonekos, and co-editor of How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice, An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care.

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Alyson McGregor, MD

Alyson McGregor, MD, is Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and co-founder for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. Dr. McGregor is the author of Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine and Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It. She serves on the editorial board for the journal Gender and the Genome.

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Elisa Brown-Pruett, MD

Elisa Brown-Pruett, MD, is an Associate Professor in the TTUHSC School of Medicine, department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of Reproductive Endocrinology, and Regional Director of the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health in the Permian Basin. She supervises OB/GYN residents and oversees a federal grant aimed at lowering the teen pregnancy and maternal mortality rates in the Permian Basin where both are extremely high. Dr. Brown-Pruett also recently completed a master’s degree in public health.

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