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Ms. Hendricks earned her Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Nursing from Texas Woman's University. She was awarded the Scholarly Achievement Award and inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau the international nurses honor society at TWU. She has been a Certified Diabetes Educator since 1987 and was awarded board certification in Advanced Diabetes Management in 2001.
Saundra has worked with Dr. Dale J. Hamilton since 1986. She developed and directed the Diabetes Center of NW Houston from 1986 to 2002. The success of this program led to an invitation to join the full-time faculty at Baylor College of Medicine. Saundra as an Instructor of Medicine from 2002 to 2006 mentored Endocrinology Fellows and physician residents in diabetes management and served as preceptor to nurse-practitioner students. While at Baylor Saundra participated as a co-investigator in a variety of clinical research projects.
Saundra developed the "non-teaching" in-patient diabetes service at The Methodist Hospital while at Baylor. In 2006 Dr. Hamilton and she joined the newly formed academic Department of Medicine at The Methodist Hospital in Houston Texas. Saundra is currently director of the TMH nurse practitioner based diabetes management program. Her faculty appointment with Weill Cornell Medical College is in committee.
Ms. Hendricks teaches the diabetes content to the TWU nurse-practitioner students lectures to professional nursing organizations and provides consultations to the pharmaceutical industry regarding diabetes related issues. She has been a member of the American Diabetes Association for over twenty years. She has served on the executive committee of the Texas Affiliate and held local committee positions. Saundra is a founding member of the Endocrine Nurses Society and is a candidate for a national board position this year. | 