Stories

Harris College of Nursing & Health Science’s Endeavor Parkinsonology welcomes Dr. Ray Dorsey, a nationally recognized pioneer, practitioner and leader in digital health and telemedicine, as the keynote speaker for the Fall 2025 Zoota Family Leaders in Parkinson’s Disease Speaker series Oct. 11.

Brad Cannell is the inaugural holder of the Eleanor and Murray Zoota Endowed Professorship in Neurodegenerative Research in the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences. The professorship was established by Murray Zoota, who also established The Zoota Family Leaders in Parkinson’s Disease Speaker Series in 2023.

A beloved TCU Day of Service project – and nursing professor Gina Alexander – were recently highlighted in a video commissioned by the Trust for Public Land to celebrate Fort Worth receiving a gold medal from CityHealth for its greenspace policies.

A new assistant professor for TCU’s recently launched Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) aims to help students become “thoughtful, client-centered professionals.” Leah Botkin, Ph.D., OTR, brings both expertise from her academic background and experience as a practicing clinician to the new program in the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences.

At a recent consensus in Cape Town, South Africa, Harris College’s Dru Riddle, professor of professional practice and director of the Center for Translational Research within TCU’s Health Innovation Institute, played a pivotal role in shaping the future of global health care evidence synthesis. The event, hosted by the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative (ESIC), aimed to develop user-centered evidence synthesis infrastructure that would improve lives worldwide.

CARE: A Bereavement Handbook is a new resource designed to help TCU nursing students and even faculty navigate the difficult emotions that can come with patient loss. It offers evidence-based strategies, tangible tools for emotional regulation and a peer-informed approach to grief care. Created by senior nursing students Gabriella Gentile, Grace Holmes, Hailey Lemon and Sarah Rangel, the project draws on both personal experience and a shared mission to make conversations about loss more open and compassionate.

Mary Twis, associate professor of social work in the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Texas Christian University, has received a grant from the Texas Bar Foundation to support the completion of her research on enhancing law enforcement response to human trafficking. Specifically, it focuses on the integration of trauma- and violence- informed care (TVIC) principles into their work with trafficking survivors.

Doctoral student Kim Rahebi recognizes her world may be too chaotic for some, but that’s OK. She’s got it. Between writing a dissertation, growing Garden Frogs, forwarding the mission of RxPLORE, developing a career network, and being a Stephen Minister, artist, vegetable gardener, musician and Harris Ambassador, Rahebi is (almost) equally dedicated to it all.