Stories

When Destiny Neal and Madison Simms tell people what they’re studying, they’re often met with the same question: What exactly is occupational therapy? Now over halfway through their first semester of study, their elevator pitch for the field is well-refined.

Thomas Sargent said he’s always wanted to teach. Before joining Harris College this year as an assistant professor of professional practice in nursing, Sargent recently worked at Parkland Health in Dallas as a mental health provider, and his clinical focus has been evidence-based addiction psychiatry, with one of his scholarly focuses being workplace violence prevention.

Exemplifying TCU’s teacher-scholar model, a Harris College faculty member and student recently attended the XI Brazilian Pediatric and Neonatal Nursing Conference held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Eny Dorea, associate professor of nursing, delivered a lecture and was accompanied by nursing major Rebecca Leeson, who presented her research.

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.