Sarah Shannon, PhD, RN, FAAN
Sarah Shannon, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an ITHS Regional Co-Principal Investigator. She has served as dean of the Montana State University College of Nursing since 2017. Previously, she served for one year as senior associate dean for academic affairs of Oregon Health & Sciences University and as faculty for 25 years at University of Washington School of Nursing with an adjunct appointment in the School of Medicine Department of Bioethics and Humanities. While in Seattle, Shannon was a clinical ethics consultant at several organizations. She received her B.S. in nursing from University of Arizona and an M. S. and Ph.D. in nursing science from the University of Washington.
Her research focus is on improving communication between health care teams and patients and their families around ethically challenging issues, specifically end-of-life decision-making in the intensive care setting, error disclosure and interprofessional conflict. Shannon has taught clinical and professional ethics for more than 20 years and has been an investigator on multiple National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded grants focused on improving communication between health care teams and patients and their families. She is a frequent speaker on ethics and has served on multiple institutional ethics committees.