Nathan Carlin

Nathan Steven Carlin is a scholar of medical humanities with interest in psychology of religion. He is the Samuel Karff Chair and a professor at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where he directs the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics.
Carlin is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Humanities. From 2018 to 2019, he served as chair of the faculty senate of McGovern Medical School. He was awarded the 2025 Health Humanities Visionary Award by the Health Humanities Consortium.