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Associate Professor Lisa Boss, PhD, RN, and Assistant Professor Kathleen Siders, DNP, RN, have been named co-directors of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Cizik School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston effective September 1, 2021.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth students have selected Amy Blok, DNP, CRNA, and Kristin Ownby, PhD, RN, as the 2021 John P. McGovern Outstanding Teachers of the Year.

Assistant Professor Hsiao-Hui “Joyce” Ju, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, and eight of her UTHealth colleagues have been honored in the Good Samaritan Foundation’s 2021 Excellence in Nursing program.

Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) student Jamie Lynn Gilley, MSN, APRN, NNP-BC, will use her James A. Baker III Transformation & Hope Scholarship to research ways to improve management in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The scholarship is funded by an endowment at UTHealth.

Andrea Ancer Leal, BSN, RN, LMSW, is the first Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth student to receive the Graduate Student Brain Awareness Outreach Award from Neurosciences Research Center at McGovern Medical School. She is an alumna, research coordinator, and current Doctor of Nursing Practice student at the school.