Diane W. Shannon MD, MPH, ACC

Diane W. Shannon, MD, MPH, is a physician-writer with expertise in performance improvement in healthcare. Leaving clinical practice to focus on system-level solutions, she has been a freelance writer for 18 years, interviewing thought leaders and innovators across the country. Her areas of expertise include physician burnout, patient safety, health care reform, and the patient experience. She is the co-author of the recently published book, Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine, which describes how to prevent physician burnout by removing the systems-level barriers that impede and frustrate physicians' daily work. Dr. Shannon received a bachelor's of arts degree from Williams College, a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, and a master's in public health degree from Harvard University. She completed residency training in internal medicine at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston and practiced primary care in the Boston area prior to launching her writing career.