Conversations on Social Work Careers: Health Social Work With Donna Shanor

     In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, Jennifer Luna, MSSW, interviews Donna Shanor, LCSW-S, LCDC.

     Donna Shanor, LCSW-S, LCDC, is a leader in health care and uses a relational, strategic, mission-driven approach. Donna brings more than 18 years of experience in social work and serves as the Inaugural Associate Chair of Clinical Integration for the Department of Health Social Work at Dell Medical School and Director of the Integrated Behavioral Health Program at UT Health Austin. Donna amplifies the role of social work in a health care setting by applying a strengths-based, patient-centered lens to health care, cultivating relationships with interdisciplinary members of health care teams, and ensuring social workers are practicing at their highest abilities, fostering innovation and change. Donna considers herself and her team agents of healthcare transformation.

     Donna is a builder and trailblazer as she leads her team in the first medical school in the country to create a Department of Health Social Work. Donna supports the clinical social workers, dietitians, and doctors of pharmacy (PharmD) in the Integrated Behavioral Health Program.