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Congratulations to Rebecca Bergh, MSN, RN, CNM, the first Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth PhD student to receive the prestigious Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare scholarship. The award will fund her dissertation research on the mental health needs and challenges faced by young parents experiencing homelessness.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth’s Stacey Crane is the first nurse scientist to receive a St. Baldrick’s Foundation Scholar award. Her two-year, $220,000 grant will fund the pilot test of a web-based interface designed to make it easier for kids with cancer and their parents to report symptoms in real time with the ultimate goal of improving kids’ outcomes.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth students from as far away as Amarillo and Brownsville converged in Houston on July 21 to gain an emergency medical technician’s perspective on assessing, stabilizing, and transporting patients. The prehospital simulation is part of their coursework for Emergency Nurse Practitioner post-masters certificates, and most students already work on the front lines of COVID-19 in emergency departments.

A new grant from the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute of Nursing Research will fund a pilot study to test whether patients with Alzheimer's disease can benefit from a nonpharmacological approach to pain management that Associate Professor Hyochol “Brian” Ahn, PhD, is exploring that involves brain stimulation.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth students this spring honored Dr. Hildreth Eloi, DNP, MSN, RN, and Dr. Matthew Lewis, PhD, DNP, CRNA, by selecting them the 2020 John P. McGovern Outstanding Teachers of the Year. Each year, students nominate faculty members for the prestigious awards, which are made possible by an endowment from the John P. McGovern Foundation.