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A partnership between Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center is earning positive reviews from students, instructors, nursing staff, and at least one special patient this cohort met on their first clinical rotation.

Associate Professor Hyochol “Brian” Ahn, PhD, ANP-BC, has been named Assistant Dean for Research at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth effective October 16. He is the Cizik School of Nursing’s Theodore J. and Mary E. Trumble Professor in Aging Research.

Through a strategic clinical partnership funded by a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant, Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth is expanding the state’s only Emergency Nurse Practitioner education program to one of its sister institutions, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The application period for Summer Health Professions Education Program opens November 1. Learn how the program, which helps students from groups underrepresented in the health professions strengthen their academic proficiency and successfully apply to schools, led recent Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth graduate Ellaine Tee, RN, to discover her career path.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, a few members of the Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth community shared remembrances of the people who influenced them to pursue health care careers.