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UNM Pulmonologist is a National Voice for Miners’ Care and Policy Reform

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:27:00 GMT

From Raton, N.M., to Coal Run Village, Ky., coal miners across the country and generations of former miners and mining families are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. Akshay Sood, MD, MPH, is a professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine within The University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is also a nationally recognized expert in mining-related lung disease.

UNM SRMC Care Under the Friday Night Lights

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

In Rio Rancho, N.M., Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation team members from The University of New Mexico Sandoval Regional Medical Center — A Campus of UNM Hospital (SRMC) are on the lookout for injuries at high school football games, and they help athletes in...

Ninety Percent of Graduates From UNM’s Physician Assistant Training Program Remain in New Mexico to Practice

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Micah Shaw was a U.S. Navy corpsman with a couple of deployments to Iraq and Kuwait under his belt before he graduated from UNM’s Physician Assistant Program in 2016. Now the program’s director, he also puts in clinical time in UNM Hospital’s Emergency...

From Cancer Patient to Healthcare Provider

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT

At age 18, Tyler Tabor was facing a cancer diagnosis he described as “very daunting”: Stage IIB Hodgkin’s lymphoma, found in his neck. As he began treatment in The University of New Mexico Hospital pediatrics unit, he said he was in disbelief. “You’re...

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