Hannah Lovell, DNP, FNP-BC

Hannah Lovell, DNP, FNP-BC is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in abdominal transplant at UT Health San Antonio. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2022, where her doctoral work focused on implementing a trauma-informed care model to improve patient experience and HCAHPS outcomes in a hematology-oncology population. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at UT Health San Antonio in 2017 and went on to complete a nurse residency in the Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgery ICU at University Health.

Dr. Lovell has a strong clinical and academic foundation in transplant medicine, with extensive experience caring for complex, high-risk liver transplant patients. Her work focuses on identifying and managing patients at increased risk for graft failure and post-transplant complications, including alcohol relapse, biliary disease, rejection, and psychosocial challenges. She plays a key role in multidisciplinary initiatives, including high-risk transplant clinics, safety net kidney and simultaneous liver-kidney transplant evaluations, and simultaneous liver transplant–gastric sleeve programs, contributing to protocol development, patient education, and quality improvement efforts.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Lovell is actively engaged in research, including data collection on HLA kinetics and donor-specific antibody trends following liver transplantation. She is currently developing an abstract on early outcomes in acute alcoholic hepatitis at UTHSI. She also completed six months of specialized training at the Texas Liver Tumor Center, where she participated in multidisciplinary tumor board discussions and case presentations.

Dr. Lovell is committed to education and mentorship. She has served as a nurse preceptor in the cardiothoracic and transplant ICU and has contributed to both nursing and medical education at UT Health San Antonio.

She currently serves as Chair of the Advanced Practice Provider Advisory Council and is an active member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation.