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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