Dr. Louis J. Lux is an assistant professor of palliative medicine at Texas Tech University Health Science Center (TTUHSC) and is on the palliative medicine consult service at University Medical Center. He is also medical director for the Advanced Illness Clinic/Palliative Medicine Clinic. Lux is involved in the education of medical students, residents and palliative medicine fellows, and is developing research for telehealth in hospice and palliative medicine. He is helping launch Project ECHO, a telehealth model focused on bridging the gaps in rural health for palliative medicine at TTUHSC.
Lux is the former medical director of the Compassus program serving Austin, Texas, and a member of the Compassus Scientific Advisory Council.
He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Florida Associated Hospitals. He is board certified in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.
Lux was the recipient of the 2013 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the 2012 R. Sean Morrison, MD Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hospice Physician Leadership and the Frist Humanitarian Award from St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center in 2009.