Texas Woman’s has tapped Stephanie Woods, PhD, an accomplished nursing leader with a wealth of classroom and executive experience, as the university’s next dean of the College of Nursing. Woods begins her new role on Oct. 1.

Woods returns to Texas Woman’s after serving six years as dean and professor of the Hunt School of Nursing at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. She previously served as associate dean for nine years at the Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell School of Nursing at Texas Woman’s Dallas campus.

She currently is a co-investigator for a five-year Hispanic Serving Institute grant focused on pathways into nursing and studying at-risk nursing students.

Woods earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas Woman’s, a master’s degree from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin.