{"id":1204291,"date":"2023-02-21T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204291"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:31:13","slug":"inaugural-dean-announced-for-new-ut-tyler-school-of-health-professions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204291","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural dean announced for new UT Tyler School of Health Professions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/Dr.-Theresa-Byrd-175x92.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1204292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/Dr.-Theresa-Byrd-175x92.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/Dr.-Theresa-Byrd-550x288.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/Dr.-Theresa-Byrd-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/Dr.-Theresa-Byrd.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dr. Theresa Byrd has been selected as the inaugural dean of The University of Texas at Tyler School of Health Professions, beginning next month. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dr. Byrd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impressive depth of knowledge and 37 years of experience in health care education demonstrated that she was a perfect fit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said UT Tyler President Dr. Kirk Calhoun as quoted in a news release. Formed in 2022, the UT Tyler School of Health Professions includes four academic departments: health care policy, economics and management; kinesiology; public health; and rehabilitation sciences. With a mission to train future health care professionals for East Texas, the new school ensures that native East Texans won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to leave the region to study health care and could help to meet projected health care needs in the future, according to the release. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Byrd has numerous publications in well-known journals, such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cancer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Journal of Preventive Medicine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the release. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also received multiple awards from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP). She was previously chair of the Department of Public Health at the Texas Tech University School of Population and Public Health. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I look forward to serving as the School of Health Professions dean,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dr. Byrd as quoted in the news release. &#8220;I am deeply honored to have been selected for this role, and I am eager to train the future health care professionals of East Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dr. Theresa Byrd has been selected as the inaugural dean of The University of Texas at Tyler School of Health Professions, beginning next month. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dr. Byrd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impressive depth of knowledge and 37 years of experience in health care education demonstrated that she was a perfect fit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said UT Tyler President Dr. Kirk Calhoun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inaugural dean announced for new UT Tyler School of Health Professions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1204297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/Dr.-Theresa-Byrd-175x92.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Inaugural dean announced for new UT Tyler School of Health Professions","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 18:22:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/Dr.-Theresa-Byrd-175x92.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Inaugural dean announced for new UT Tyler School of Health Professions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204295,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204291\/revisions\/1204295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}