Dr. Stormy Monks, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor and serves as the Director of the Division of Research with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC EP) Department of Emergency Medicine. In addition, Dr. Monks serves as the Regional Director of the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health, the Region 6 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (SWCPEH). She is the Director of Research for the Texas Tech Training and Educational Center for Healthcare Simulation (TECHS) and serves as the TTUHSC EP Institutional Review Board Chair.
As the Regional Director of the SWCPEH, Dr. Monks spends much of her time educating both health professionals and community members across Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico on environmental health topics that impact children such as air quality, pesticide use, extreme heat, healthy housing, drugs of abuse, asthma, and prenatal exposures. She has a passion for environmental justice communities across Region 6, specifically communities along the US/Mexico border where she was both raised and where she currently raises her own family.
Dr. Monks has presented her research at various local, regional, national, and international conferences as well as authored several publications focusing on healthcare simulation, emergency medicine, environmental health, alcohol and drug use, and risky lifestyle behaviors. Moreover, she has been engaged in mentoring master-level public health students, medical students, emergency medicine residents, and early career faculty members. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and four grandchildren.