Top Medicine Researchers at Texas Tech University for 2026

Texas Tech University’s recent Medicine research shows a broad mix of clinical questions, from population health to specialty care and translational reviews. Across the last year, the institution’s output reflects work that connects bedside practice with larger patterns in disease, treatment, and outcomes.

Below, you’ll find a closer look at researchers whose recent publications point to active areas of inquiry across epidemiology, oncology, surgery, and cardiovascular medicine. The snapshot highlights how Texas Tech scholars are contributing to both focused clinical studies and wide-ranging medical syntheses.

Featured Researchers

Pojsakorn Danpanichkul

Pojsakorn Danpanichkul at Texas Tech University has recently focused on epidemiology, pathology and forensic medicine, and hepatology, with publications on alcohol-related liver disease, cirrhosis, and the global burden of mental disorders.

Activity over the last year: 98 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• Global epidemiology of alcohol-related liver disease, liver cancer, and alcohol use disorder, 2000–2021 (Jan 2025)
• The Global Burden of Cirrhosis and Other Chronic Liver Diseases in 2021 (Feb 2025)
• The epidemiology and burden of ten mental disorders in countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (May 2025)

Michelle Tarbox

Michelle Tarbox at Texas Tech University has worked across epidemiology, oncology, and pathology and forensic medicine, publishing on digital twins in randomized clinical trials, isotretinoin outcomes, and saw palmetto.

Activity over the last year: 48 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• Enhancing randomized clinical trials with digital twins (Oct 2025)
• Psychiatric comorbidities, inflammatory bowel disease, and urticaria in acne vulgaris patients undergoing isotretinoin treatment: a multicenter cohort study from the TriNetX database (Jan 2025)
• The Over‐The‐Counter Finasteride Alternative: A Critical Review of Saw Palmetto's Efficacy, Safety, and Regulatory Concerns (Aug 2025)

Kritin K. Verma

Kritin K. Verma at Texas Tech University has centered recent work in dermatology, oncology, and epidemiology, including studies on isotretinoin treatment, cutaneous lupus erythematosus, and delayed inflammatory nodules after filler use.

Activity over the last year: 39 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• Psychiatric comorbidities, inflammatory bowel disease, and urticaria in acne vulgaris patients undergoing isotretinoin treatment: a multicenter cohort study from the TriNetX database (Jan 2025)
• Oral Deucravacitinib for Treatment-Refractory Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (Mar 2025)
• Delayed inflammatory nodule from predominantly low-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid filler secondary to COVID-19 infection (Mar 2025)

Manas Pustake

Manas Pustake at Texas Tech University has published on infectious diseases, oncology, and epidemiology, with recent work spanning platelet transfusion, acute myeloid leukemia, and prognostic factors for brain metastasis.

Activity over the last year: 45 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• Platelet transfusion is associated with reduced thrombosis yet elevated mortality in consumptive thrombocytopenias: A retrospective cohort study (Nov 2025)
• AML-624: Aggressive Extramedullary Monocytic AML (AMLM5) With Leukemia Cutis in a Postpartum Woman: Challenges in Diagnosis and Management (Aug 2025)
• Prognostic factors for brain metastasis in adolescent and young adult patients. (May 2025)

Matthew J. Kraeutler

Matthew J. Kraeutler at Texas Tech University has focused on surgery, including an AI-assisted review of musculoskeletal imaging and systematic reviews of hip pathology and revision hip arthroscopy.

Activity over the last year: 33 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• Artificial intelligence‐assisted analysis of musculoskeletal imaging—A narrative review of the current state of machine learning models (Jun 2025)
• Sensitivity and Specificity for Physical Examination Tests in Diagnosing Prearthritic Intra‐Articular Hip Pathology Are Highly Variable: A Systematic Review (Mar 2025)
• Residual Structural Disease and New Labral Tears Are the Most Common Indications for Revision Hip Arthroscopy: A Systematic Review (Jul 2025)

Lakshmi Kattamuri

Lakshmi Kattamuri at Texas Tech University has recent publications in hematology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and radiology, covering CAR-T therapy in autoimmune disease, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis.

Activity over the last year: 35 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• Safety and efficacy of CAR-T cell therapy in patients with autoimmune diseases: a systematic review (Jan 2025)
• Molecular Insights into Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury in Coronary Artery Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications: A Comprehensive Review (Feb 2025)
• Cardiovascular Risk Factor and Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) (Jan 2025)

Kenneth Nugent

Kenneth Nugent at Texas Tech University has concentrated on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, and critical care, with recent articles on traumatic brain injury, sodium and hypertension, and corticosteroid use in tuberculosis.

Activity over the last year: 23 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders in Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical Implications and Management Strategies (Jan 2025)
• Sodium, the Vascular Endothelium, and Hypertension: A Narrative Review of Literature (Jan 2025)
• The use of corticosteroids in patients with pleural and pericardial tuberculosis (Mar 2025)

Debabrata Mukherjee

Debabrata Mukherjee at Texas Tech University has recent work in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, and radiology, including acute coronary syndrome guidelines and an analysis of STEMI in breast cancer survivors.

Activity over the last year: 26 indexed journal articles.

Top publications:

• 2025 ACC/AHA/ACEP/NAEMSP/SCAI Guideline for the Management of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines (Feb 2025)
• 2025 ACC/AHA/ACEP/NAEMSP/SCAI Guideline for the Management of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes (Feb 2025)
• Trends, Characteristics and Outcomes in Breast Cancer Survivors With STEMI (Jan 2025)

What Texas Tech University's Medicine Community Is Working On

Epidemiology appears most often across the featured work, suggesting a strong interest in how disease patterns, risk factors, and outcomes are measured across populations. Oncology and pathology and forensic medicine also show up repeatedly, alongside surgery and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pointing to a community that is balancing clinical decision-making with broader disease characterization. Together, these subfields suggest active work on how conditions are diagnosed, managed, and studied across specialties.

• Epidemiology - seen across 5 of the featured researchers
• Oncology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
• Pathology and Forensic Medicine - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
• Surgery - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
• Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine - seen across 2 of the featured researchers

These recent publications show a medical research community engaging with both pressing clinical problems and longer-term questions about disease burden, treatment safety, and care pathways. If you’re exploring similar topics, this is a useful place to discover emerging themes and connect them with your own work. Researchers can also streamline literature discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission preparation with Resub.

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