Dr. Shannan Hamlin is the Director of the Center for Nursing Research, Education and Practice at Houston Methodist Hospital and serves as Chair of Nursing at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute. A distinguished nurse scientist and leader, Dr. Hamlin is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Executive and holds CCRN certification from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

With a clinical and research focus on critically ill adult patients, Dr. Hamlin brings over two decades of expertise in critical care nursing. She has held multiple roles at Houston Methodist, including Clinical Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Research Fellow, and Nurse Scientist. Her research has garnered over $1.5 million in grant funding, and she has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications. She also served as Co-Editor in Chief for a special issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America on tissue perfusion and oxygenation monitoring. Dr. Hamlin serves on the editorial board for the journal Critical Care Nurse.

A highly sought-after speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. Hamlin has contributed to numerous professional committees, including the ANCC Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Content Expert Panel and the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Scientific Review Committee. She also plays a key role in research governance through her service on the Houston Methodist Institutional Review Board.

Dr. Hamlin holds academic and advisory appointments at Houston Christian University and Rice University. She is the current President of Sigma Theta Tau’s Alpha Gamma Gamma Chapter, one of only two hospital-based chapters in the U.S.

Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Texas Medical Center’s Wainerdi Emerging Nurse Leader Award, UTHealth Houston’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Texas Nurses Association District 9 Outstanding Nursing Award.

Dr. Hamlin earned her BSN from Houston Christian University, and both her MSN and PhD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Dr. Hamlin’s research program focuses on hemodynamics in the critically ill patient population. Current research efforts are aimed at understanding the role of hemorheology in the microcirculation of critically ill patients.