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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. 

Daphne Hernandez, PhD, is expanding her work with Hispanic immigrant families through a new study that will seek to understand where parents and teens get information about COVID-19, their beliefs about the disease, and how socioeconomic factors are affecting their health behaviors. The overall impact of COVID-19 and other stressors on mental health will also be examined.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth is offering two live, interactive webinars this summer to help nurses enhance their skills and meet licensure requirements while observing COVID-19 precautions. Each provides one contact hour of continuing nursing education credit.

Social isolation necessitated by COVID-19 means the staff and volunteers of the Harris County Long-term Care Ombudsman Program must depend on phone calls and video chats to keep in touch with - and advocate for - older adults and those living with disabilities. Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth’s Greg Shelley manages the program.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth's own Meagan Whisenant, PhD, APRN, an assistant professor in the Department of Research, is one of seven new recipients of the First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Member Awards granted this week by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).