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Department of Family Medicine


Associate Professor Claude Kennard Shannon, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Family Medicine
Morgantown, WV


PRESENTATIONS:

  • Shannon CK, Jackson J. Factors Associated with Primary Care Intent and Physician Practice in WV. WV Rural Health Conference, October, 2008.
  • Nath, C., Fredrick, G., Mason, E., Sperry, J., Bower, E., & Shannon, C. K., & Tennant, S. (2008, June). Limited literacy communication skills intervention in residency curriculum. Poster session presented at the Workshop for Directors of Family Medicine Residencies, Overland Park, KS. 
  • “Tracking of Medical Students and their Attitudes and Career Intents,” poster presentation, northeast regional STFM Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2007
    Presentation for WVU Community Design Team visits, 1999-2006, 13 rural WV
    Communities.
  • “Evaluating for Rural Curricular Influences in Medical Student Specialty Choice,” research paper presentation, northeast regional STFM Conference, Pittsburgh, October, 2007
  • “A Longitudinal Study of Medical Student Primary Care Intent,” research paper presentation, northeast regional STFM Conference, Pittsburgh, October, 2007
  • “R&R Research,” WVRHEP Recruitment & Retention committee, Flatwoods, September 2007
  • “Factors Promoting Rural Preceptor Participation,” SGEA conference, Louisville, KY, April, 2007
  • “Recruitable Community Project,” WV Rural Health Conference, October, 2006
  • Poster presentation (Smith, DeHaven, Doyle, Shannon). Osteoporosis: Effects of Interventions on Awareness and Risk Behaviors. Van Liere Research Day and also SHEC conference, Morgantown, WV, April, 2006.
  • Interview for Recruitable Community Project shown on WV public TV Outlook series on “Health in the Hills,” and for WV public radio, February, 2006
  • “Retention and Recruitable Community Program,” presenter and panel participant, WV Rural Health Conference, Stonewall Jackson Resort, October 2005.
  • "Community Development Approach to Rural Recruitment and Retention,” Arizona rural Health Association Conference, Payson, AZ, July 2005.
  • “Community Approach to Rural Recruitment and Retention,” National Rural Health Association conference, San Diego, CA, May 2004.
  • “An Evaluation of a State-wide Multidisciplinary Rural Education Program,” National Rural Health Association conference, San Diego, CA, May, 2004.
  • “West Virginia Recruitable Community Project: A Community Development Approach to  Recruitment and Retention,” National Cooperative Extension Service Priester Conference, Phoenix, AZ April, 2003.
  • “WVRHEP Evaluation Project across disciplines”, WVRHEP evaluation committee, Flatwoods, November, 2002.
  • “West Virginia Recruitable Community Project: A Community Development Approach to Recruitment and Retention,” Southern Rural Access Program conference, Charleston, WV, September, 2002.
  • “Factors Affecting the Availability of Female Physicians to Rural Populations in West Virginia,” 2002 National Rural Womens’ Health Conference, Washington, D.C., September, 2002
  • “Recruitable Community Project”, collaborative meeting of WVU and health sciences, Jacksons Mill, September, 2002.
  • "WVRHEP Evaluation Project", WVRHEP Evaluation Committee, Flatwoods,
    WV, September 2001
  • “Research Network", WVRHEP Faculty Development Conference, Canaan
    Valley, Davis, WV, September 2001.
  • Moderator for research presentations, Hal Wanger Conference, Morgantown,
    WV, September 1999, 2000, 2001
  • "Atherosclerosis and Education", presented at WVAFP Research Forum,
    Lakeview, Morgantown, WV, May 2001
  • "Barriers to recruitment" R & R workgroup, Southern Rural Access Program,
    Spencer, WV, March 2001
  • Moderator and presenter at Research Breakfast meeting (WVAFP)
    Huntington, WV, November 1998, 1999, 2000
  • "Sports Medicine Survey", presented at WVAFP Research Forum, Charleston,
    April 2000.
  • "Doddridge County Healthcare Survey", presented at WVAFP Research
    Forum, Charleston, WV, April 2000.
  • "Evaluation of WVRHEP." presented to WVRHEP Advisory Board, Flatwoods
    1999, 2000
  • “Factors affecting the future practice location of family medicine residents in West Virginia."  Presented at West Virginia Rural Health Conference, October 1997, Morgantown WV
  • "The Relative importance of recruiting factors for family medicine residents in
     West Virginia."  Presented to RHEP Recruitment and Retention Advisory Board and to RHEP Advisory Panel, May 1997, Flatwoods, WV
  • “An examination of medical student experience logs.”  Presented at
    STFM conference, October 1996, Washington, DC

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:

  • “Research Question Formulation & Literature Searching,”  LCS medical student program, WVU. July, 2008
  • On-line courses - “Introduction to Statistics & Research Methods,” “Applied Research I,” “Applied Research II,” Alderson-Broaddus College, 2005-08
  • “Cardiovascular Diseases,” Alderson-Broaddus College, 2004-2008
  • “Issues in Rural Primary Care,” graduate PA course (survey course on rural issues and adult medicine), Alderson-Broaddus College, 2004-05
  • “Applied Research,” summer, fall semesters, Alderson-Broaddus College, 2003,2004,2005,2006,2007, 2008.
  • “Introduction to Statistics & Research Methods,” spring semester, Alderson-Broaddus College, 2003,2004,2005,2006, 2007, 2008
  • "Research Process", Dept FM medical student extern program, June, 2001, 2002.
  • "RHEP Evaluations and Survey", WVU pharmacy students, May, 2001.
  • "RHEP Evaluations and Survey", WVU medical students, 2001-2008
  • LCS Orientation, “Designing a Research Project”, 2000, 2001, 2002,2006,2007, 2008
  • Longitudinal Community Scholars (LCS) “Design, Data Analysis, Stats” Orientation
    lecture, 1998-2007
  • “Managed Care, a Personal View”, FM Noon Conference, September, 1995

RESIDENT & PEER PRESENTATIONS:

  • “Grading the Evidence,” FM noon conference, Feb 2009
  • “EBM by Design,” FM noon conference, May 2008
  • “POEMS syndrome,” FM noon conference, July 2007
  • “Statistical Concepts in Literature Review,” FM noon conference, November 2006
  • “FM Resident Research,” new resident orientation, July 2006
  • “WV’s Financial Incentive Programs for Physicians,” MDTV noon lecture, February, 2003
  • Quarterly journal club precepting and presentation, 1999-2003
  • “Recruitable Communities Project”, several presentations to WV residency programs, 1999-2002
  • “Atheroscterosis Risk Factors”, FM Noon Conference, June, 1998
  • “Evidence-based Medicine”, FM Journal Club, 1996

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Carlisle R, Shannon CK. The influence of payer mix and visit volume on NRMP match rates for community-based family medicine residency programs. Southern Med J 2007;100(5):482-485.
  • Shannon CK. “A Gender-Based Study of Attitudes and Practice Characteristics of Rural Physicians in West Virginia,” WV Med J:102:22-25, 2006.
  • Shannon CK, Baker, H, Jackson J, Heady H, Roy A, Gunel E. “Evaluation of a Required Statewide Interdisciplinary Rural Health Education Program: Student Attitudes, Career Intents and Perceived Quality” joint issues, Education for Health;18(3):395-404, and Rural and Remote Health 5(4), 2005.
  • Meit S, Yasek V, Shannon CK, Hickman D, Williams D. “Techniques for reducing anesthetic injection pain: An interdisciplinary survey of knowledge and application. J Am Dental Assoc. 135:1243-49, 2004
  • Jackson J, Shannon, CK, Mason E, Nemitz J. “A Comparative Assessment of West Virginia’s Financial Incentive Programs for Rural Physicians,” Journal of Rural Health (suppl):329-39, 2003.
  • Shannon CK “A Community Development Approach to Rural Recruitment,”  Journal of Rural Health (suppl):347-53, 2003.
  • Shannon CK, Jackson J. “Pre- and Post-Rotation Questionnaire Responses of RHEP Medical Students” (for WVRHEP Recruitment & Retention Committee). WVU:Morgantown, WV, 2002.
  • West Virginia University Office of Rural Health. “Assessment of West Virginia’s Four Financial Incentive Programs for Rural Physicians”. Morgantown, WV, 2002.
  • Shannon CK, Tilden C. Empowering rural communities for healthcare provider recruitment: An interim report of the Recruitable Community Project. West Virginia University, 2001.
  • Cannarella R, Krummel D, Shannon CK. Adolescent survey summary (abstract), Family Doc, WVAFP, Nov/Dec 2000.
  • Wetmore SJ, Shannon CK. "Managing epistaxis," in Atlas of Office Procedures, Dec 1999; 459-76. Saunders, Philadelphia.
  • Shannon CK, Gunel, E. A study of the future practice location intent of family        medicine residents in West Virginia. WV Med J Sept/Oct 1999.
  • Shannon CK. Not necessarily fibromyalgia: Diagnostic challenges. Cortlandt                  Forum, Oct 1998;150-53.
  •  Patricoski C, Shannon CK, Doyle G.  Recording dictated patients to assess             logbook accuracy and clerkship content. Family Medicine. July/Aug                       1998;487-89 
  • Shannon CK. Drugs and the prolonged QT interval: Knowing what to look  for. Fam Pract Recert. 1997;19(7):55-68.