Naomi Shimamoto, APRN-CNP, FNP-BC,

Naomi is a Family Nurse Practitioner with more than a decade of experience in women’s health, spanning labor and delivery, obstetric triage, postpartum care, and primary care. Before becoming an NP, she served as a charge nurse in busy labor and delivery units and provided breastfeeding and childbirth education to families. In addition to seeing patients in primary care, she currently teaches Maternal/Child clinical and simulation at Galen College of Nursing and the University of Texas Health Science Center, combining her clinical expertise with her passion for education. Her professional interests center on maternal health equity, prevention of complications across the lifespan, and holistic, patient-centered care that values family, lifestyle, and community.