Amarillo Administration

Richard M. Jordan, M.D.

Weis joined the TTUHSC School of Medicine faculty in 2005 as an associate professor of internal medicine. He also served as the residency program director and the internal medicine student clerkship director. In 2015, Weis joined Northwest Texas Healthcare System (NWTHS) as the chief medical officer until he returned to TTUHSC in 2023 as the interim regional dean.

“TTUHSC has provided me with tremendous opportunities for personal and professional development since I started on the Amarillo campus in January of 2005,” Weis said. “Academic medicine and the teaching of residents and medical students have always felt like home for me. The opportunity to serve as the TTUHSC School of Medicine regional dean on the Amarillo campus will allow me to serve the institution that has supported my career while continuing to provide the teaching that is a source of tremendous satisfaction for me.”

In addition to his leadership in academic medicine in the region, Weis continues to practice at the Northwest JO Wyatt Clinic and serves as NWTHS Chief of Medicine Services. He is the medical director for LIFESTAR, an air medical transport service, and serves as the president of Scouting America Golden Spread Council.

“My objective is to make the Amarillo campus of TTUHSC the leading location for premier and cutting-edge medical care in the Panhandle of Texas,” Weis said. “The institution will also continue to train competent and compassionate health care providers for the Panhandle region through its productive collaboration with area hospitals and other health care facilities. Ultimately, I want TTUHSC in Amarillo to become an essential resource for all health care in West Texas.”

Weis received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1997 and remained there for his internal medicine residency.  

Travis Zinck 

Travis Zinck serves as the Assistant Dean for Finance & Administration.  Travis grew up in Texline, a small town in the northwest corner of the Texas panhandle, ten miles from Clayton, New Mexico and 36 miles northwest of Dalhart.  After graduating in a class of eight students, he attended West Texas A&M University.  Travis obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Computer Information Systems and later completed his Master of Business Administration through WTAMU as well.

Travis worked for five years in the Information Technology area of a large local employer, providing computer support and later project and finance management before changing career paths to ultimately work within healthcare administration.  

His employment with TTUHSC began in the Correctional Managed Healthcare group, where he worked onsite at several local prisons in various roles, including Facility Health Administrator.  

Travis joined the Amarillo campus as the Department Administrator for the Department of Internal Medicine, where he served over eight years. He then served as the Department Administrator for the Department of Pediatrics for another five and a half years.

Travis and his wife, Carrie, have been married over twenty years and raise their two daughters here in Amarillo.  He enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and balancing out all that spreadsheet time by participating in some creative activities such as painting, woodburning, and throwing pottery.