Nathan Carlin is the Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), where he holds the Samuel Karff Chair. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Medical Humanities. Carlin has published twelve books, including Pastoral Aesthetics: A Theological Perspective on Principlist Bioethics, as well as Medicine, Meaning, and Identity, which is co-edited with Keisha Ray.