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2025 Spring Luncheon


Save the date!

  • When: Thursday, March 20, 2025, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
  • Where: River Oaks Country Club
  • Keynote Speaker: Author Sarah DiGregorio
  • Honoring: Nancy I. Bergstrom, PhD, RN, FAAN
  • Registration: http://go.uth.edu/PARTNERSlunch
  • Event Co-chairs: The Bridges Family (Sally and Joe Bridges, Beth and Drew Cozby, Jennifer and Todd Darwin)


The PARTNERS Spring Luncheon brings together influential leaders from philanthropic, medical, and corporate communities to raise funds and spread awareness about the life-changing role nurses play in our lives. 

The luncheon, which serves as the organization’s premier fundraiser of the year, will benefit student scholarships and transformational faculty research at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston.

 

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Meet Sarah DiGregorio

Sarah DiGregorio is the critically acclaimed author of Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human and Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change Our World. She is a journalist who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and Insider, among others. She has been a keynote speaker for many universities, corporations, and professional organizations. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughter and husband. For more information please visit her website. 

2024 Spring Luncheon 

Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2024 PARTNERS Spring Luncheon the most successful ever! Read all about it, and see all the photos.

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From birth through illness to the end of life journey, the nurse is the HEART and HANDS of medicine.

For more information about PARTNERS:

Cavishia Roberson
Program Manager
Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston
713-500-2256
[email protected] 

Make a Donation to PARTNERS online in the form of joining the Circle of Support, adding to the PARTNERS Scholarship Endowment Fund, supporting the UTHealth School of Nursing through a donation to the Dean's Excellence Fund, or by making a general contribution to PARTNERS.