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HONORING SENIORS
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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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