Courtney Shihabuddin

Biography

Dr. Shihabuddin is an Associate Clinical Professor at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and director of the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty track. She developed a standardized LGBTQ+ health curriculum now used across all 10 APRN specialty tracks at Ohio State and adopted at SUNY Upstate and Stony Brook University, and co-created the college's required seminar preparing APRN students for entry into practice. She volunteers at the Columbus Free Clinic as Director of Quality Improvement and Risk Management, Director of Specialty Clinics, and a member of the Board of Directors, and she co-founded its Rainbow Clinic, Ohio's first student-run free clinic for LGBTQIA2+ patients. She founded Empowered Wellness, a nurse practitioner-owned midlife women's health practice, and is a recurring women's health expert on Good Day Columbus. She chairs the Reproductive and Sexual Health Special Interest Group of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and serves on the editorial board of The Nurse Practitioner.

Dr. Shihabuddin’s research interests include LGBTQ+ and gender-affirming health education; midlife and menopausal women's health; nurse practitioner transition to practice and professional identity formation; sexually transmitted infection care; and health equity in student-run free clinics.