Alumni and events
As alumni of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, you are the school’s most important asset and its greatest strength. As leaders in health care organizations, faculty at higher education institutions, members of primary-care teams and influencers within policy-making bodies, you illustrate how graduates fulfill the vision and mission of the school.
Through word-of-mouth support to promote the school and financial support to enable future students to benefit from the philanthropy that yielded your education, your involvement is critical to the future success of the school. Through your partnership, faculty, staff and students at the School of Nursing discover ways to advance health, improve quality of care and shape policy.
Alumni distinctions
Leaning into research to give women a voice
Marla Shauer completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree so she could make the change she wanted to see happen. She chose the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis for its flexibility, financial support and faculty mix.
Read and watch Marla's Story
A lifelong dream becomes an amazing reality
Bill Randall, a 2020 graduate of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree Program, said earning the terminal degree allowed him to achieve his dreams in the nursing profession — and even go beyond those dreams. Read and watch Bill's Story
Latest school news
April 11 — Doctoral candidate awarded best paper at national burn conference
Ingrid Parry, a doctoral candidate at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, was awarded best Clinical Research Paper Award at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Burn Association (ABA) in Phoenix. Her study, “Using Cutaneous Functional Units (CFUs) to understand burn characteristics associated with range of motion at hospital discharge in adult burn survivors,” assesses acute burn characteristics associated with scar contractures after burn injury. Using a novel framework that evaluates how skin accommodates limb and body motion, she seeks to better predict the patients and body areas that are vulnerable to developing motion problems. The goal is that this information can be used to guide more targeted and personalized interventions for burn survivors to prevent them from experiencing burn scar contractures and other negative scar problems. Ingrid is a physical therapist and researcher at Shriners Children’s Northern California. She was president of the (ABA) for the 2022-2023 year, which was the organizations first non-surgeon/non-physician president. Ingrid is in her final year of the Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science and Health-care Leadership program.
