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Expanding access to the nurse-ledUT Health Services诊所是休斯顿Uthealth的最高优先事项的Cizik护理学院之一，领导这是该实践团队的两个新补充。

Professor Leissa Roberts, DNP, CNM, FACNM, will become associate dean for practice and community engagement as of October 30, 2021. On her team is Joy Harrison, DNP, MSN, RN, who became director of UT Health Services four months earlier.

罗伯茨（Roberts）将制定一项新的UT卫生服务战略计划，除了向各个患者提供初级保健外，还为休斯顿地区所有六所Uthealth Houston学校和几个大型组织提供了员工和职业卫生服务。外围beplay她将努力在社区内建立新的联系，尤其是在服务不足的地区，并确定诊所扩张的机会。

As director, Harrison is working to expand UT Health Services’ reach while maintaining and growing efficient, financially sound operations. Among Harrison’s first projects is overseeing the main clinic’s relocation from the 16th floor of UTHealth Houston’s primary administrative office building to a larger, ground-floor spot in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. Located in a building filled with mostly UT Physicians providers, the new nurse-led clinic is being converted from a previous bank branch. UT Physicians is the clinical practice of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

“One advantage of the new location is that we will be more visible to patients and families who want to come here,” said Harrison, adding that workflow and parking/valet availability will be improved as well. “I also like the idea of being able to more easily collaborate with UT Physicians on patient care and on several projects.”

Roberts comes to Cizik School of Nursing from the University of Utah College of Nursing in Salt Lake City, where she most recently served as associate dean of faculty practice. A certified nurse-midwife, she held a variety of leadership roles in faculty practice and obstetrics nursing after joining the faculty in 1993. Her scholarship revolves around the Coping with Labor Algorithm, an assessment tool that she and colleagues designed to replace the 0-10 numeric rating scale for labor pain. The Coping with Labor Algorithm is used widely by hospital systems across the United States and internationally.

She earned her Master of Science in nurse-midwifery and her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from the University of Utah and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Wyoming Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, from which she received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016. In 2017, Roberts completed the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Wharton Executive Leadership Program. She is a Fellow in the American College of Nurse Midwives and received that organization’s distinguished service award in 2020.

Harrison brought to her new job three decades of experience within the Texas Children’s Hospital organization, advancing through the ranks from staff nurse to assistant director of regional operations for Texas Children’s Hospital Pediatrics managed services organization. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and earned her DNP in nursing executive leadership and administration from Cizik School of Nursing in 2019.

标题标题：Joy Harrison博士与UT医生运营助理主任Akber Mazhar一起评论了改建计划。