Faculty shine at TNA gala
Yu, Mathew Joseph, and Landry recognized
Three faculty members in the Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston Department of Undergraduate Studies were recognized by the Texas Nurses Association District 9 on Nov. 8 at its 32nd Annual Nursing Celebration Gala.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies Erica Yu, PhD, RN, FNAP, and Associate Professor Nitha Mathew Joseph, PhD, RN, CNE, CGNC, were among 20 Outstanding Nurse Honorees celebrated at the Bayou City Event Center, where hundreds gathered to salute nurses who make a difference in health care.
Yu was honored for her contributions as a visionary leader in nursing education, interprofessional collaboration, and academic-practice partnerships. A Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, Yu was part of a team that received the 2023 New Era for Acdemic Nursing Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, which recognized the long-standing academic practice partnership between Cizik School of Nursing and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.
Dr. Mathew Joseph was heralded as “the ideal nurse educator” who is vested in the belief that nursing students represent the “brightest hope for the future of nursing.” She was honored for her contributions as a nurse educator and nurse researcher in the area of prevention of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes risk among South Asians as well as her engagement with the Texas Team Advancing Nursing Education to advance the recommendations of the Institutes of Medicine Report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. She currently serves as the director of Cizik School of Nursing’s Honors Research program.
In addition, Instructor Kennessa Landry, MSN, RN, received the District 9 Research Grant for her dissertation, “Validating the Nursing Practice Readiness Scale in New Graduate Nurses in the United States.” Landry serves coordinator of the junior-level cohort in the accelerated Pacesetter Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Cizik School of Nursing. She is working toward her PhD in nursing at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
