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Senior Senior Dr. Annette Sobel

Leading the Way

in Lubbock’s

“Stop the Bleed”

Campaign

by Grant Arrington

everal people have profoundly Doctoral Nursing Students at Texas
impacted my life as mentors Tech University Health Sciences
Sand friends. One such person is Center. As a Tech professor, Dr. Sobel
Annette Sobel, MD, MS, a professor at has been able to connect with the
Texas Tech. Through her mentorship, Lubbock area - mentoring students
I learned the importance of the “Stop in community health and education,
the Bleed” campaign on the national, sharing her vast knowledge and
regional, and local level. expertise.

Dr. Sobel is a doctor of many talents Dr. Sobel’s research focuses on
and qualifications; she is well-versed the principles of integration of
in medical civilian and medical biomedical innovation and human
military issues. She is residency- factors into a wide range of solutions
trained in Family and Community in the area of trauma and disaster
Medicine and Aerospace Medicine medicine challenges. These efforts
and is a Hyperbaric Medicine include the use of 3D-printing in
Specialist, certified by the U.S. extreme (pre-hospital) settings, use of
Navy. She is currently an Associate virtual reality, and intelligent robotic
Professor in the Department of training platforms to assist people
Medical Education, and Graduate with disabilities, as well as team students and civilians alike. She has
School of Biomedical Sciences, and medical training for first responders. opened programs like Camp Perfect
an Adjunct Professor in the School of Dr. Sobel has used her research to Storm, where she and Texas Tech
Nursing, teaching Bioinformatics to help educate Texas Tech medical medical students taught high school

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