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Read the latest news about UTA CONHI in our newsletter
UTA HEALTH BULLETIN
MAY 2021
DEAN'S MESSAGE
Dear CONHI Community,
Happy end of the semester! It's been another successful semester for our students, many of whom graduated and the rest who have made progress toward program completion. 
We have some exciting things happening in our College, including a new undergraduate Telehealth and Health Informatics Certificate and our new Graduate Gerontology Healthcare Certificate is currently accepting applications. We also are making good progress on the construction of the new Smart Hospital and School of Social Work building, which you can watch in real-time here.  
You may have noticed that our website has a new look. I am very proud to share this news as we have worked to make our programs more streamlined and the information more user-friendly. I encourage you to take a look around and explore our new pages, including the Alumni & Giving, Research, and News & Events sections. 
We also celebrated Nurses Day early this month, and you can find our special video message to our nurses below. 
Wishing you all a healthy and happy summer. 

All the best, 
Dean Elizabeth Merwin, PhD, RN, FAAN
UPDATES FROM CONHI
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: CONHI HONORS NURSES ON NATIONAL NURSES DAY (video)
CONHI HAS A NEW LOOK TO ITS WEBSITE
In May, our College launched a redesign of our website. The new design brings an updated feel, more user-friendly organization, and improved features. We hope our visitors find the new website easy-to-use.  
Check out the new site
RANKING & AWARDS
Two nursing students at bedside
TWO KINESIOLOGY STUDENTS RECEIVE AHA PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

Two PhD students in Kinesiology, have defied the odds and each recently received a highly competitive American Heart Association (AHA) pre-doctoral fellowship to continue their cardiovascular research.

Andrew Oneglia is researching cardiac dysfunction and is a member of the Applied Physiology and Advanced Imaging Laboratory, mentoring under Dr. Michael Nelson, lab director and associate professor, Kinesiology.

Damsara Nandadeva is focused on racial differences and long-term effects of COVID-19 on vascular function in young healthy adults and is a member of the Human Neural Cardiovascular Control Lab, mentoring under Dr. Paul Fadel, lab director, associate dean for research, and professor, Kinesiology.
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Two nursing students at bedside
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TO SPEND SUMMER ADVANCING HEALTH POLICIES THROUGH URBAN LEADERS FELLOWSHIP
Dr. Brandie Green, clinical assistant professor in the Public Health Program, has been selected as a 2021 Fellow through the Urban Leaders Fellowship (ULF) program. Green, and the entire 2021 Fellow class, was selected among thousands of candidates. She will spend her summer working with policymakers and a non-profit organization in Tulsa, Oklahoma to advance health policy for marginalized populations.
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
KINESIOLOGY RESEARCHERS BEGIN NEW STUDY ON HYPERTENSION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN

The Integrative Vascular Physiology Laboratory has recently received research grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research into the neural and vascular mechanisms of elevated blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk in African American women. The lab is housed in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation and is led by Dr. Matthew Brothers, associate professor and associate chair for graduate programs in exercise science in the Department of Kinesiology. 

"Our research will be exploring what may contribute to hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases, and we are specifically focusing on African American women, because the lack of research on this population is alarming."
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RESEARCHER AT UTA INVESTIGATING STRESS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS AND SPOUSES

In partnership with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, researcher Yue Liao, MPH, PhD, CPH is investigating the stress that Black prostate cancer patients and their partners are facing in everyday life, how they cope, and how their health behaviors might be impacted. A new grant funded by the National Institutes of Health is supporting this effort to conduct ecological momentary assessments, or brief surveys throughout the day, to get a snapshot into the life of these cancer patients and their spouses.
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SPOTLIGHT ON
ANSA & PRESIDENT SUJITA SHRESTHA 
Sujita “Suzzy” Shrestha attends classes full-time in the bachelor of science in nursing program, works part-time, and also currently serves as the 2020-2021 Arlington Nursing Students' Association (ANSA) president. Under her guidance, the chapter also has not let COVID-19 set them back, as they remain committed to volunteerism, education and networking.

“When I became president, COVID-19 happened, and everything we had planned got changed. We switched to online for our meetings, are finding other ways to get service hours through bone marrow donation drives and try to stay connected as a group on Microsoft Teams,” shares Shrestha. 

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NEW IN CONHI
New Gerontology Healthcare Certificate
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