Accolades

Dr. Eileen Giardino is Core Faculty on a HRSA funded proposal led by Dr. Filipek at the Medical School.

An entry co-authored by Sharon K. Ostwald, Ph.D., R.N. professor at the UTHealth School of Nursing, won first prize in the annual Innovations in Health Science Education competition held by The University of Texas System during a two-day conference in San Antonio, May 18-19. Vaunette P. Fay, Ph.D., professor of clinical nursing in the Department of Nursing Systems, was one of three distinguished UTHealth inductees into The University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education on the conference's opening day.

Congratulations to both Dr. Eric Yu, Jennifer Sanner (soon to be Dr. Jennifer Sanner), and Dr. Rene Flores on their acceptance into the NINR Summer Genetics Institute!

Presentations, Publications, Awards

Leyden, K. N. L., & Hanneman, S. K. (In press). Validity of the Modified Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale for use in sedated, mechanically ventilated swine. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Congratulations to Stacy Drake and co-author, for her publication in Journal of Forensic Sciences, entitled “Essential Medicolegal Death Investigation Services: Standardization of a Survey Instrument Based on the Essential Public Health Services.” The article was published July 2011, vol 56, No 4, 1034-1040. We a proud of Stacy for accomplishments.

Congratulations to Martina Gallagher for being identified as the winner of the 2010 Research Article Award in the Journal of Specialist in Pediatric Nursing for the research article most accessed.

Dr. Grimes and Emily Ahmad had a paper published in the August issue of The Journal of School Nursing

As follow up to her JAMA editorial [ JAMA. 2011;306(2):211-212. doi: 10.1001] with Dr. Susan Horn , “ Racial Disparities in Rates of Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes and Site of Care,” the UTHealth School of Nursing's Dr. Nancy Bergstrom was interviewed yesterday by the Reuters news service about nursing home conditions and the problem of high staff turnover.