Dorothy T. Nicholson Distinguished Professorship
Dean (Interim), Cizik School of Nursing
Associate Professor & PARTNERS Research Scholar
Dorothy T. Nicholson Distinguished ProfessorshipDr. Santa Maria has extensive experience in public health nursing and adolescent health, particularly with HIV/STI prevention, including intervention development, dissemination and determinants research. She has served as the principal investigator and program director on research and demonstration grants on multiple CDC-, ACF-, and foundation-funded HIV and STI prevention projects. With wide-ranging experience working in underserved communities in the U.S. and abroad, she currently is conducting research with homeless youth and at-risk youth and their families.
She has been appointed the PARTNERS Faculty Research Scholar through Aug. 2017 and will receive endowment funding to help support her research.
Santa Maria is an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Health Promotion and Research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health. She teaches courses in Public Health Nursing and Nursing Research, and she currently is developing a course for healthcare providers in Intervention Mapping, an evidence-based approach to development of health promotion interventions.
She received her BSN from Ohio State University, her MSN in Public Health Nursing from Case Western Reserve University, and her DrPH in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences from the UT School of Public Health.
UTHealth President appoints Diane Santa Maria interim dean of Cizik School of Nursing (Aug 2018)
Santa Maria & Padhye publish study of drug use predictors among homeless youth in Houston (Feb 2018)
Santa Maria named to new School of Nursing distinguished professorship (Apr 2017)
Armstrong, Pullis and Santa Maria receive Dean’s Service Awards (Feb 2016)
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies selects Santa Maria for training and pilot study funding (Feb 2016)
Santa Maria awarded NICHD/NIH grant, releases “YouthCount 2.0!” report on homeless youth (May 2015)
Research projects of Starnes-Ott, Drake, Yammine and Santa Maria get boost from PARTNERS grants (May 2015)
Santa Maria appointed PARTNERS Research Scholar through FY 2017 (Dec 2014)
PARTNERS Endowed Professorship in Nursing
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
PARTNERS Endowed Professorship in NursingDr. Rozmus is the endowed PARTNERS Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at UTHealth School of Nursing. She also is Assistant Vice President for Institutional Assessment and Enhancement in the UTHealth Office of Academic and Research Affairs. In addition, she is a faculty associate in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at the UTHealth Medical School.
Rozmus previously was the chair of Graduate Studies at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. At Georgia Southwestern State University, she served as dean of the School of Nursing and as vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of the faculty. While at Georgia Southwestern, she was project director for projects funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) of the U.S. Department of Education and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rozmus’ research interests include health behavior decision making and health professions education. In addition to educational research, her most recent clinical research is a collaborative study on the use of community theater in the prevention and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Fiji. The project is funded by the International Diabetes Federation. She also has current funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Her BSN is from West Virginia University. Her MSN in Parent-Child Nursing is from Vanderbilt University,where she was the Dean's Scholar. She received her PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Maternal-Child Nursing and Education Administration.
Researchers collaborating to improve low vaccination rates in Houston schools (Apr 2017)
Benedict, Rozmus and Dean Starck contribute to new book on human subjects research (Jul 2014)
Rozmus successfully applies for HRSA training grant for MSN students (Jul 2014)
Rozmus and Jones publish evaluation of Pacesetter BSN model (Apr 2014)
Rozmus selected for 2013 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (Jul 2013)
Rozmus Co-Investigator of Project Reported in “Diabetes Voice” (Mar 2013)
Rozmus Named AVP for Institutional Assessment & Enhancement (Mar 2013)
Rozmus Named First Holder of New PARTNERS Professorship (Sep 2011)
Associate Dean for Management
Associate Dean, Professional Development and Faculty Affairs
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, Professional Development and Faculty AffairsDr. Fowler is track director for the MSN in Nursing Leadership and Administration program and also the head of the Division of Management and Education in the Nursing Systems Department. She developed the curriculum and taught in the Nurse Executive option of the DNP program.
For four years, she served as the Nursing Career Coach at Harris Health System in Houston, where she consulted with nurses who wished to advance their careers and with employees who were interested in pursuing a nursing career. She has held numerous nursing administration positions, including roles at the Visiting Nurse Association Los Angeles and Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Fowler has focused her teaching, practice and scholarship in the areas of nursing administration, professional development of nurses, and the scholarship of teaching and learning related to education of nurse leaders. She is active in several professional nursing organizations. She is a recognized by the National League for Nursing as a Certified Nurse Educator and as a Nurse Executive Advanced-Board Certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Fowler received her BSN from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, formerly Northeast Louisiana University. She earned the Master of Science in Nursing from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and her MBA degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, Cal. She received her PhD in Nursing Science from Texas Woman’s University in Houston.
Fowler and Jones report on improving MSN-NLA students’ professional presentation skills (Dec 2015)
Nursing Systems faculty members co-author in Journal of Nursing Education and Practice (Dec 2015)
Fowler, Brixey and Boss among TNA-District 9’s newly elected officers for 2015-16 (Jun 2015)
Fowler’s article describes “win-win-win” in career coaching practice (May 2014)
Three UTHealth professors among honorees as “Outstanding Nurses of 2013” (Nov 2013)
Lee and J.D. Jamail Distinguished Professor
Associate Dean for Research
Lee and J.D. Jamail Distinguished ProfessorDr. Constance Johnson joined the UTHealth School of Nursing as Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship in October 2016. She already was an adjunct associate professor at UTHealth’s School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI), where she earned her PhD in 2003 and her MS in 2001.
A health informatician with interdisciplinary training in nursing and health informatics, Johnson has over 25 years of experience in research and informatics in the area of health promotion and disease prevention. She has more than 50 publications to her credit.
As a principal investigator (PI), Johnson has received research funding from the National Cancer Institute, National Library of Medicine, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the University of North Carolina’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). She is also a co-investigator and Co-PI on various other grants in health informatics. Her current research interests include human-computer interaction, and how the representation and visualization of information affects healthcare decisions.
Johnson previously served as a tenured associate professor and a member of the senior research faculty in the Center for Nursing Research at Duke University School of Nursing. She also had a secondary appointment in the Department of Community and Family Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine.
SBMI honors Constance Johnson as distinguished alum at 2018 Commencement event (Jun 2018)
Johnson publishes on technology in type 2 diabetes education and self-management (Feb 2018)
Johnson produces two new articles on chronic disease self-management (Aug 2017)
Johnson and Ahn named to endowed positions at UTHealth School of Nursing (Dec 2016)
PARTNERS Endowed Professorship in Nursing
Associate Dean & Department Chair, Graduate Studies
Nurse Planner
PARTNERS Endowed Professorship in NursingDr. Susan Ruppert holds the PARTNERS Endowed Professorship in Nursing and is a professor and coordinator of the MSN program. She directs the Adult/Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner track. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, American College of Critical-Care Medicine, and National Academies of Practice.
Ruppert has been editor-in-chief of The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice since 1997. She has been a textbook editor/contributor, and serves as an editorial board member/reviewer and author for numerous journals. Ruppert has served as a national/international practice and education consultant for colleges of nursing in Oman and Hong Kong.
Ruppert has held numerous national leadership positions within professional organizations. She currently serves on the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Board of Commissioners. She is the board Treasurer for 2018, and previously completed a full two-year term as Chair and a full two-year term as Vice-Chair. She also serves on CCNE Accreditation Review Committee as Co-Chair as well as the CCNE Standards Committee, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) Board of Commissioners, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Curricular Leadership Committee, and American Academy of Nursing Primary Care Expert Panel. She is a member of the Texas Center of Nursing Workforce Studies Advisory Committee.
Ruppert received her PhD in Nursing from Texas Woman’s University. She completed a post-graduate Family Nurse Practitioner program at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She is certified as both a Family Nurse Practitioner and an Adult Nurse Practitioner. In addition, she is also recognized in Texas as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Medical-Surgical Nursing.
UT System Regents name Ruppert among 27 faculty members lauded for teaching excellence (Jun 2018)
Ruppert appointed to endowed professorship, elected to CCNE office (Feb 2018)
Ruppert named to two national oversight roles for nursing education (Jan 2017)
UTHealth School of Nursing's Susan Ruppert re-elected as national accrediting agency's chair (Oct 2016)
Website ranks Ruppert among “50 Top Gerontology Professors” on 2016 list (Jun 2016)
Ruppert and fellow faculty members push for nurses’ “Leap into Leadership” (Mar 2016)
Ruppert elected to AANPCP certification board, co-authors on diabetes (Dec 2015)
Ruppert elected to national leadership position in CCNE accrediting agency (Oct 2015)
Ruppert’s re-election extends her CCNE board service through 2018 (Jul 2015)
Co-authors Ruppert and Fay publish on pharyngitis in Nurse Practitioner (Jul 2015)
Ruppert appointed to statewide advisory committee on nursing workforce studies (Apr 2015)
Hanks and Ruppert take on new administrative posts, starting Feb. 1 (Jan 2015)
Website names Ruppert one of “15 Top Adult Gerontology Professors” (Oct 2014)
Website names Ruppert one of “16 Great Acute Care Nursing Professors” (Aug 2014)
Ruppert elected to CCNE office for 2014 (Dec 2013)
Ruppert Elected as Distinguished Fellow in National Academies of Practice (Feb 2013)
Ruppert Presents in Oman on GNE (Jan 2013)
Three Listed Among “Top 25 Nursing Professors in Texas” (Jan 2013)
Ruppert Co-Authors with Fay and Two Alums in Three Journals (Oct 2012)
Ruppert Named 2012 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (Aug 2012)
Margaret A. Barnett/PARTNERS Professorship in Nursing
Associate Dean & Department Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Margaret A. Barnett/PARTNERS Professorship in NursingSanner coauthors new journal article with two UTHealth deans (Jan 2018)
Yu accepted into AACN’s 2016 Leadership for Academic Nursing Program (May 2016)
Taiwan grant funds collaboration on different populations of cardiovascular disease patients (Jan 2016)
Sanner & Yu contribute book chapter on “Nursing and Biobanking” (Oct 2015)
Yu co-authors with Sanner and Udtha, will lead undergraduate programs (Jan 2015)
Sanner, Yu and Udtha co-author new article on genetic biobanking (Dec 2013)
Director, RN to BSN Program
Instructor
Director, RN to BSN ProgramKrawtz is the track director and instructor for the RN-BSN program. She has over 35 years of clinical, leadership and management experience in nursing. Her leadership and management experience includes providing strategic leadership for Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital and the Memorial Hermann Hospital - TMC, including all aspects of clinical operations, nursing practice, professional development, customer service, finance, human resources and quality outcome management. Her clinical experience is in both adult and pediatric transplant and intensive care. She has held leadership roles since 1984 in both pediatric and adult settings at academic medical center institutions.
Krawtz was employed at Memorial Hermann from 1982 until 2007 when she retired after 25 years of service. She joined the UTHealth School of Nursing in 2008.
She earned her MSN in Nursing Administration from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1992 and her BSN at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
McEwen, Pullis and Krawtz co-author study of RN-BSN program content (Oct 2014)
Nursing Systems Faculty Members Publish RN-BSN Survey (Oct 2012)
Director, MSN Program
Coordinator, Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Track
Director, MSN ProgramDr. Laird is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing. He is certified as an adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. In addition to teaching, he continues to practice as a nurse practitioner in pulmonary/critical care.
Dr. Laird attended Houston Baptist University where he received his Associate Degree in Nursing. While working as a critical care nurse, he completed his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at Tyler. He completed his Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing.
Dr. Laird has held various leadership positions in health care administration. He is active in local and state organizations and previously served as the Nurse Co-Leader for the Gulf-Coast Regional Leadership Team for Texas Team and was on the board of directors for the North Harris Montgomery County American Association of Critical Care Nurses. He is also the past president of Texas Nurses Association District 9.
Director, Pacesetter Program
Associate Professor
Director, Pacesetter ProgramDr. Kristin Ownby has extensive experience in adult health nursing with emphasis in oncology, HIV/AIDS, and hospice and palliative care nursing. She is certified as an Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse (AOCN), Advanced Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse (ACHPN), and as an Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (ACNS). Her research focus has been symptom management primarily fatigue and peripheral neuropathies in the chronically ill patient.
Dr. Ownby received her BSN in Nursing from Vanderbilt University, MSN in Adult Oncology from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She has a MPH in Health Education from Tulane University and a post-master’s certificate in palliative care and hospice nursing from Ursuline University. Her PhD in Nursing Science was from Texas Woman’s University in Houston.
Slivinski, Ownby selected by graduating students as 2018 McGovern Outstanding Teachers (May 2018)
Wood and Ownby are graduating students’ choices for school’s outstanding teachers (May 2016)
Director, DNP Program
Assistant Professor
Director, DNP ProgramLisa W. Thomas, DNP, RN is a Clinical Nurse Specialist, with over 15 years of experience in the rehabilitation setting, managing staff education needs and clinical consultations for this population. A graduate of the UTSON DNP Executive Nurse Leadership program, she joined the faculty of the Acute and Continuing Care Department in 2016, and continues to pursue clinical practice opportunities with TIRR Memorial Hermann.
Her research interests include facilitating adjustment to disability, and nurses’ transition into practice. Optimizing care quality through nurse-initiated projects is a continuing passion.
Four faculty members complete national Advanced Quality Improvement program (Mar 2018)
Bette P. Thomas Distinguished Professorship for Innovative Healthcare Delivery
Director, PhD Program
Professor
Bette P. Thomas Distinguished Professorship for Innovative Healthcare DeliveryGeri LoBiondo-Wood, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor and Coordinator of the PhD in Nursing Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing (UTHSC-Houston) and former Director of Research and Evidence-Based Practice Planning and Development at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. She received her Diploma in Nursing at St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing in Rochester, New York; Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Rochester; and PhD in Nursing Theory and Research from New York University. Dr. Wood teaches research and evidence-based practice principles to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. At MD Anderson Cancer Center, she developed and implemented the Evidence-Based Resource Unit Nurse (EB-RUN) Program, a hospital-wide program that involved all levels of nurses in the application of research evidence to practice. She has extensive national and international experience guiding nurses and other health care professionals in the development and utilization of research. Dr. Wood is the primary author and editor of the textbook Nursing Research: Methods & Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice which is in its 8th edition. This book has won the AJN Book of the Year Award for six of its editions. Dr. Wood is an Editorial Board member of Progress in Transplantation and a reviewer for Nursing Research, Oncology Nursing Forum, Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, and Nephrology Nursing Journal. Her research and publications focus on pediatrics, family, chronic illness and oncology nursing. Annually for the past three years she has obtained funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to fund PhD students as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars.
Dr. Wood is active locally and nationally in many professional organizations, including the American Nurse Foundation, Oncology Nursing Society, Southern Nursing Research Society, the Midwest Nursing Research Society, and the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization. She has received local and national awards for teaching and contributions to nursing. In 1997, she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from New York University, Division of Nursing Alumni Association. In 2001 she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and in 2007 as a Fellow of the University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education. In 2012 she was appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Professor of the University of Texas System.
Wood wins prestigious Future of Nursing Scholars grant for fourth time (Jan 2017)
Wood and Ownby are graduating students’ choices for school’s outstanding teachers (May 2016)
Armstrong co-authors in several journals with colleagues & PhD students (Apr 2015)
Wood and McEwen top research category in AJN 2014 Book of the Year Awards (Jan 2015)
Wood publishes three articles in oncology journals (Jan 2014)
Four faculty members contribute to popular textbook’s 8th edition (Dec 2013)
Transition in Leadership Coming to School’s Ph.D. Program in Fall (Mar 2013)
Executive Director (Interim), Student Affairs
Executive Director, Assessment and Quality Assurance
Executive Director (Interim), Student AffairsGood Samaritan Foundation honors Giardino, Ethington and Sanner during Sept. 1 luncheon (Sep 2015)
Ethington joins UTHealth School of Nursing faculty (Feb 2011)
Director, Communications
Director, CommunicationsBates is responsible for internal communications – not only within Cizik School of Nursing, but sharing the School's news university-wide. Among other duties, he oversees the design, production and effectiveness of school publications as well as news-related sectors of the website and the school’s social media presence. He produces Caring Minds, Cizik School of Nursing ’s colorful annual magazine that celebrates achievements in philanthropy, research, faculty excellence and other areas of interest.
Bates has been a senior program administrator in the public and private sectors, as well as a strategic communications leader, media spokesman, public relations account manager, journalist and freelance writer since 1981. He has won a Bronze Addy Award from the Houston Advertising Federation, the Texas/S.I.R.S. Intellectual Freedom Award for Outstanding Achievement (1991) and the Gold Excalibur Award from the Houston chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. His published fiction is quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (William Morrow & Co, c1982), p247.
In March 2016, he shared his expertise in marketing and communications as a featured speaker during the American Association of Colleges of Nursing-Nursing Advancement Professionals (AACN-NAP) Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
Bates joined UTHealth in August 1999. He earned two master’s degrees (MA and MLIS) from The University of Texas at Austin and graduated with honors from Austin College in Sherman, Tex.
Director, Simulation and Clinical Performance Laboratory
Director, Education Technology
Suzie Conway Endowed Professorship in Nursing
Director, Continuing Education
Lead Nurse Planner
Suzie Conway Endowed Professorship in NursingDr. Vaunette Fay received her PhD in nursing theory development and research from Texas Woman's University in 1992. She received her Master of Science with a major in nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) from Texas Woman's University in Houston in 1974. She worked as a FNP for Harris County Hospital District- Sunnyside clinic and for Cardiology Associates prior to joining the faculty of University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing in 1981. She is currently an Associate Professor, and since 1990 has served as track director for the Gerontological Nurse Practitioner track.
In 1993, she became head of the Division of Gerontology at the UTHSC-Houston School of Nursing and in 1997 was appointed as Associate Director for Education at the UTHSC-H Center on Aging. She is a certified family nurse practitioner and a gerontological nurse practitioner. Dr. Fay teaches gerontological nursing at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has had faculty practice positions as a GNP with Harris County Hospital District Settegast Clinic and is currently working with an Alzheimer's Day Care Center.
Dr. Fay's research interests include the impact of co-morbidity on physical functioning in older adults and the competency level of nurses working in long term care.
A focus of Dr. Fay's academic career has been development of nurse practitioner programs and interdisciplinary education. She served as nursing coordinator for the Houston site of a Hartford Interdisciplinary team training grant and is lead faculty for an interdisciplinary Issues in Aging class. She is active in the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner faculty and has served on the education committee as chair of the GNP competencies taskforce.
Dr. Fay has served on national review panels and on expert panel on geriatric nursing education. She is currently the Project Officer for the UTHSC-Houston portion of the Texas Consortium of Geriatric Education Centers grant and the John A. Hartford Foundation grant for developing new electronic media for disseminating gerontological nursing content.
Fay appointed to Texas Council on Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders (Feb 2018)
Co-authors Ruppert and Fay publish on pharyngitis in Nurse Practitioner (Jul 2015)
Ruppert Co-Authors with Fay and Two Alums in Three Journals (Oct 2012)
Fay Named to UT System’s Academy of Health Science Education (Feb 2011)
Director, Global Health Program
Associate Professor
Director, Global Health ProgramDr. Gallagher's research is on the prevention and treatment of obesity in Latino families, with current research focusing on the incorporation of sleep hygiene into weight loss/management interventions in community settings. Her work blends biobehavioral factors and cultural perspectives with the goal of understanding how these factors and perspectives influence the long-term adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors in Latinos. Her funded studies have focused on the maternal influence on lifestyle factors that place preschool children at risk for obesity.
From The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Gallagher received a BSN, an MSN in Administration of Community and Healthcare Systems (with minors in Teaching and Informatics), and her PhD degree, with an emphasis on health promotion of Hispanic families. She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington School of Nursing in Seattle, WA, where she learned basic sleep concepts, and data collection, analysis and interpretation of objective and subjective sleep measures in community settings.
Gallagher selected for mentorship training at PRIDE summer institute (May 2016)
Houston Chronicle’s “Salute to Nurses” recognizes UTHealth's Gallagher and Parker (May 2015)
Gallagher Publishes on Sleep Patterns and on Obesity (May 2013)
Gallagher Picked to Serve on PICORI Advisory Panel (Apr 2013)
Gallagher Published in Global Nursing Journal (Jul 2012)
Gallagher Selected for PRIDE Summer Institute (Jun 2012)
Nursing Excellence Award Honors Martina Gallagher for Teaching (Aug 2011)
Jerold B. Katz Distinguished Professorship for Nursing Research
Director (Interim), Nursing Research Labs
Professor
Jerold B. Katz Distinguished Professorship for Nursing ResearchDr. Hanneman is the Jerold B. Katz Distinguished Professor for Nursing Research and tenured professor in the Department of Acute & Continuing Care. She conducts laboratory and clinical research on circadian rhythms in adult ICU patients on mechanical ventilation and ICU night-shift workers. She also conducts clinical trials to test the efficacy and safety of interventions to prevent pulmonary complications. Dr. Hanneman was the 1994 University of Florida College of Nursing Outstanding Alumna and 2000 Distinguished Research Lecturer of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She serves on editorial boards of nursing research journals and advisory boards of patient advocacy not-for-profit organizations.
Dr. Hanneman teaches research measurement in the PhD program and pathophysiology in the BSN program. She mentors BSN honors program and PhD students and junior faculty. In May 2014 and May 2017, the School’s undergraduate students voted Dr. Hanneman their choice for the John P. McGovern Outstanding Teacher Award.
She received the BSN from the University of Florida, Gainesville; the MSN from the University of California, San Francisco (Pulmonary Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist); and the PhD from Texas Woman's University in Houston.
Hanneman co-authors article on Arabic cancer patients in Cancer Nursing (Feb 2018)
Hanneman co-investigator on $1.6M RO1 study of dyspnea in cancer patients (Feb 2018)
Hanneman co-authors monograph in journal Respiratory Care (May 2017)
Hanneman and Arnaud chosen by students as McGovern outstanding teachers of 2017 (May 2017)
Hanneman and colleagues publish biomarker validation study in Nursing Research (Nov 2016)
Hanneman co-authors journal article with former international student at UTHealth (Aug 2016)
Hanneman, Kang and Padhye coauthor new article on circadian rhythms (Aug 2015)
Hanneman joins advisory board of patient health and safety advocacy group (Jun 2015)
Hanneman “thought leader” on respiratory compromise at national roundtable (Apr 2015)
Hanneman co-authors articles with PhD student and 2010 alumna (Dec 2014)
Hanneman and others share presentations at nursing research congress (Sep 2014)
McGovern Outstanding Teacher Awards for 2014 go to Hanneman and Laird (May 2014)
First PCCL Findings Published by Leyden and Hanneman (Mar 2012)
Biosciences Laboratory Achieves First Publication (Apr 2011)
Director, Corporate Occupational Health
Assistant Professor
Director, Corporate Occupational Health
Coordinator, Adult/Gero Primary Care Track
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Adult/Gero Primary Care TrackDr. Aggarwal was a Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Scholar in the second (2013) cohort of UTHealth’s philanthropically supported Accelerated PhD program. Receiving her doctoral degree in May 2016, her dissertation was “Clinical and Demographic Variables Associated with Cognitive Deficits, Symptom Severity, and Duration after Concussive Injury in Adolescents: A Retrospective Study.”
Aggarwal has practiced as an adult acute clinical nurse at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and worked as an elementary school nurse, 2008-11. She earned her master’s degree in Adult/Gerontology Primary Care at UTHealth School of Nursing in 2012, following her 2007 cum laude graduation with the BSN from Texas Woman’s University in Houston. Aggarwal also holds a BS in Biology from New Jersey’s Monmouth University.
Aggarwal lead author in Applied Neuropsychology: Child on concussions (Feb 2018)
Coordinator, Nursing Leadership Track
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Nursing Leadership TrackDr. Boss worked for 10 years as a nurse or nurse manager at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) in 1997. She received her master’s degree as a Clinical Nurse Specialist from UTHealth School of Nursing and was awarded her doctoral degree in 2013 as the Legend Healthcare Scholar in the school’s Accelerated PhD Program, which started in fall 2010.
Nursing Systems faculty members co-author in Journal of Nursing Education and Practice (Dec 2015)
Boss and Branson selected for NYU College of Nursing summer institute (Jun 2015)
Fowler, Brixey and Boss among TNA-District 9’s newly elected officers for 2015-16 (Jun 2015)
Branson, Boss, Kang and Cron take blue ribbon for podium abstract at Research Day 2015 (Mar 2015)
Branson and Boss awarded $45,000 ISAZ Waltham grant for companion-animal study (Jul 2014)
Boss publishes WJNR article with Kang, Marcus & Bergstrom (Jan 2014)
BSN Academic Success Coach
Assistant Professor
BSN Academic Success CoachBrown Joins UTHealth Nursing Faculty (Sep 2010)
Graduate Academic Success Coach
Assistant Professor
Graduate Academic Success CoachDr. Fitch is the graduate-level academic coach at UTHealth School of Nursing. She has been conducting academic research and mentoring students from the elementary to the post-graduate levels for 15 years. She joined the UTHealth faculty in spring 2016, after completing her thesis research at Baylor College of Medicine in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Medical School.
Her research interest is studying the physiology of normal brain development and the effects of sensory deprivation or neurodegeneration on normal synaptic function. She has published three articles in peer-reviewed journals and is currently revising a manuscript on the effects of visual deprivation on the synaptic plasticity of distinct synaptic pathways onto common cells in the primary visual cortex of mice.
Fitch has participated is an NINDS neurodegenerative disease consortium and is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, where she has presented her research findings in numerous national meetings. The training of future investigators is the top priority in Fitch’s career – from judging an elementary school science fair to training faculty on specialized techniques for scientific research. She is currently developing an academic success curriculum for the graduate students at the School of Nursing that she hopes will serve as a model for other graduate training programs.
Among her significant honors are participation in the Merck Scholars Program and recipient of the Carilion Research Day Award for Excellence in Presentation of Student Research. She earned a PhD in Neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine and received her BA in Biology from Cornell University in 2000.
Coordinator, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program Track
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program Track
Co-Coordinator, Family Nurse Practitioner Track
Assistant Professor
Co-Coordinator, Family Nurse Practitioner Track
Assistant Professor
Co-Coordinator, Family Nurse Practitioner Track
Administrative Director, Center for Nursing Research
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