Nurse scientists at Cizik School of Nursing are supported by UTHealth Houston’s multidisciplinary Cizik Nursing Research Institute (CNRI), which provides infrastructure, evidence-based mentoring programs, and laboratory facilities. Get the details about the Smart Apartment for aging-in-place research and the Biobehavioral Health Laboratory.
Our nurse scientists are devoted to improving the lives of patients and families with a wide variety of robust programs of research. Get to know our faculty members, and find one whose interests align with yours.
More than 20 Department of Research faculty members are conducting research funded by federal and state grants as well as private foundations and intramural sources. Explore our funded research projects.
The Center for Nursing Research provides pre- and post-award services, editorial support, statistical consultation, and a wide range of other services to support faculty.
This nursing-led, multidisciplinary center supports research studies of behavioral and social interventions that aim to reduce exposure to elder mistreatment and its mental and physical impacts on community-dwelling older adults and their caregivers.
Assistant Professor Annalynn Galvin, PhD, RN, receives Dean’s Research Award to better understand the nutritional needs of pregnant women experiencing homelessness.
Suhyun Park, PhD, studies nurses’ clinical workflows and how they interact with electronic health records (EHRs).
Abbey Kaler, MS, FNP-C, to analyze data about patients living with metastatic breast cancer.
Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston Associate Professor Jennifer E.S. Beauchamp leads five-year, $6.48 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dean Diane Santa Maria receives R34 planning grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
Course to include online modules and hands-on clinicals.
Alumna Terri S. Armstrong, PhD, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, delivers the 2025 Jane and Robert Cizik Lecture.
NIH funding increased to $6,438,187 in 2024.
Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston Dean Diane Santa Maria receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.