2025 Health Scholar Showcase
How might we bridge the divide between the need for mental health services and our healthcare system's capacity to meet that need?
When/where health disparities exist, thoughtful systems design is required. It has been a personal benefit to witness health practitioners and researchers working across boundaries—and budgetary uncertainty—to make a difference.
Two levels of health science scholar research posters at the 2025 Health Scholar Showcase. This event brought together faculty researchers, staff, and community guests for an afternoon of interdisciplinary dialogue and discovery as they shares some of the best examples of faculty health research and sponsored programs at Texas State University.
The auditorium at Texas State University Center for Performing Arts with Melinda Villagran, PhD and Daniel Knoepflmacher, MD, MFA and my digital graphic recording of keynote titled “Bridging the Divide” is on a screen above.
Within three days, we had the honor to support three different conversations about boldly meeting the need for mental health awareness, skills, tools, and treatments:
A startup designing suicide prevention programs for teens in Houston.
A keynote presentation by a former Hollywood writer turned clinical psychiatrist on the stigma and systemic challenges facing mental health access in the U.S.
A two-day virtual design workshop involving participants in the US and India on the delivery of meditation and mindfulness practice as an effective tool for treating depression and anxiety.
