Associate Professor Nitha Mathew Joseph, PhD, RN, CNE, will use the 2022 Sigma Theta Tau International Research Grant to study exercise attitudes among middle-aged South Asian Indian women, who are at greatly elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
A new grant enables Associate Professor Maja Djukic, PhD, and Instructor D’Hania Miller, MS, to develop a program for preparing high school students from diverse backgrounds to succeed in health care education.
World-renowned nurse scientist Chao Hsing Yeh, PhD, receives $1 million grant to enhance and expand a smart-phone app that guides patients undergoing cancer treatment to self-administer auricular point acupressure.
Meagan Whisenant, PhD, RN, is applying her two decades of symptom science experience to two new grant-funded research projects. One aims to support patients experiencing brain tumors and their caregivers, and the other focuses on chemoprevention of breast cancer.
Assistant Professor Deniz Dishman, PhD, DNAP, CRNA, will use a new grant from the PARTNERS organization to learn more about how the brain perceives shoulder pain, which frequently affects stroke survivors.
Between them, Department of Research faculty members Seema Aggarwal, PhD, RN, AGNP-C, and Carina Katigbak, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAH, are leading three new research projects in Cizik School of Nursing’s Smart Apartment.
Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston Assistant Professor Riza V. Mauricio, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC, FCCM, received a new grant for a program to reach Filipino American nurses with peer-to-peer support led by trained facilitators.
A pilot study by Deidra Carroll Coleman, DrPH, a postdoctoral research fellow at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, is geared toward young people ages 14-18 and their parents from Black, Asian, and Hispanic families.
Multiple hardships may lead to food insecurity among mothers of young children, according to findings recently published by Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston researchers.
Associate Professor Daphne Hernandez, PhD, MSEd, FAAHB, is the primary investigator on a Feeding America grant that is studying food pantry usage in Houston, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia.
