Shannon Pryor

Dr. Shannon Pryor is an otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon who lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and practices in several locations in the Washington DC metropolitan area.

She is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Pryor earned her Bachelor of Arts with highest honors in neuroscience with a concentration in English from Williams College. She received her MD from Tulane Medical School, and completed her internship and residency at Johns Hopkins University. She also completed a postdoctoral clinical fellowship in molecular biology at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Pryor joined MedChi upon first moving to Maryland in 1993 and has been actively involved since that time. In addition to her work with MedChi, Dr. Pryor has been active in the American Medical Association at the national level for over 30 years. She currently serves as the delegate from the Maryland AMA Delegation to the Southeastern Delegation, and as immediate past chair of the AMA Council on Long Range Planning and Development.

Dr. Pryor was the first chair of the AMA Women Physicians Section. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a past president of the Metropolitan Washington Head and Neck Society and the Montgomery County Medical Society.

In her non-medical life, Dr. Pryor is a single mother of three, an expert knitter and developing weaver, and a proud hockey mom. Dr. Pryor also holds a first-degree first-class black belt in TaeKwonDo.

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