Shannon Bell, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Shannon Bell, MD received her medical degree from UC-San Francisco and completed her residency in OBGYN at Boston Medical Center. Her interests include the role of simulation in quality improvement/patient safety projects and resident skill development. She is an Associate Clinical Director of BMC’s Solomont Center for Clinical Simulation. She serves as the OBGYN consultant for the state Department of Corrections, seeing prenatal and gynecology patients at MCI-Framingham and South Middlesex, the two state correctional facilities that house women. Bell also created and serves as course director for a correctional health elective for BUSM fourth-year medical students.

Publications

  • Published 11/11/2024

    Wegman K, Gorka C, Linden J, Bell S, Stapleton SN, Tancioco V, Welsh L. Manual Uterine Aspiration Simulation for Emergency Medicine Learners. MedEdPORTAL. 2024; 20:11469. PMID: 39530104.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 5/6/2022

    Fields L, Young DA, Patel AR, Munroe C, Shumway M, Bell S, Richer LA. Drug-facilitated sexual assault, impaired trauma memory, and implications for mental health treatment. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2022; 13(1):2057165. PMID: 35558683.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 10/16/2020

    Storey A, White K, Treder K, Woodhams E, Bell S, Cannon R. First-Trimester Abortion Complications: Simulation Cases for OB/GYN Residents in Sepsis and Hemorrhage. MedEdPORTAL. 2020 10 16; 16:10995. PMID: 33094159.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/25/2020

    O'Rourke-Suchoff D, Sobel L, Holland E, Perkins R, Saia K, Bell S. The labor and birth experience of women with opioid use disorder: A qualitative study. Women Birth. 2020 Nov; 33(6):592-597. PMID: 31987751.

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  • Published 12/1/2018

    Sobel L, O'Rourke-Suchoff D, Holland E, Remis K, Resnick K, Perkins R, Bell S. Pregnancy and Childbirth After Sexual Trauma: Patient Perspectives and Care Preferences. Obstet Gynecol. 2018 12; 132(6):1461-1468. PMID: 30399100.

    Read at: PubMed

Education

  • University of California San Francisco, MD
  • University of Southern California, BA