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Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Dean Diane Santa Maria’s latest grant, from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, will fund a pilot project to tailor and test a mindfulness-based intervention designed for delivery to youth staying in homeless shelters.

Just weeks after receiving her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Cizik School of Nursing at UT Health, Bethsheba Johnson was promoted to Senior Field Director for the HIV Prevention Team-West at Gilead Sciences, where she champions diversity, equity, and inclusion.  Her unconventional career demonstrates the value of nurses throughout the health care industry.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth PhD student Setor Kofi Sorkpor, MPH, MSN, RN-BC, will use the Speros Martel Endowment for the Aging Award he received this month for his dissertation study to assess the analgesic effects of listening to music on low back pain. 

Diane M. Santa Maria, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN, has been appointed dean of the Jane and Robert Cizik School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), effective Tuesday, Sept. 1. In this role, Santa Maria will serve as the Jane and Robert Cizik Distinguished Chair and the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair in Nursing Education Leadership.

A team led by Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth’s Interim Dean Diane Santa Maria will expand its research of vulnerable youth to examine COVID-19 risks through a two-year, supplemental grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health.