UT Health Services (UTHS) - Houston is staffed by highly qualified health-care personnel and staff who collaborate to provide expert comprehensive health and illness care. Nurse practitioners provide the majority of care at UTHS. As such, the nurse practitioner (NP) assumes an expanded role in providing high-quality primary health care with an emphasis in specific areas of health promotion, illness prevention and health restoration. A physician is available in clinic on a periodic basis to meet any additional medical needs. Likewise, the physician is available to the NP for consultation. You are always welcome to see the provider of your choice.
Dr. Rebecca Casarez is an Associate Professor – Clinical in the Department of Family Health. Her primary research interest is management of chronic illnesses. She is currently examining the effect of a psychoeducation intervention on caregiver burden, depression, mental well-being, and immune function in family members of individuals with bipolar disorder. Dr. Casarez completed her doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She obtained her MS in psychiatric mental/health nursing at Texas Woman’s University in Houston and her BSN at the University of St. Thomas, also in Houston. Her clinical background has focused on inpatient and outpatient psychiatric nursing and home health.
Casarez examines helpfulness of mHealth tool in Journal of Affective Disorders (Jul 2019)
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UT Health Services' nurse practitioners Rutherford & Alexander “never stop learning” (Sep 2016)
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