Shannon is an enthusiastic leader of person-centred care. With over 20 years’ experience as a pharmacist, she began her career in hospital pharmacy at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, before working at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust as a specialist pharmacist in neurology and older people. Following her passion for the care of older people, she then led the Integrated Medication Review Service in Care Homes at Barnsley CCG.

Shannon now has two main roles in learning and development.

She has worked for ten years at the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education on the national pathways, taking an instrumental role in the development and delivery of the medicines optimisation in the Care Homes Training Pathway and now leads the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway as regional lead (Midlands and East).

Shannon also works for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and is the Education Lead for the Heart Failure Academy, upskilling the multidisciplinary team to recognise the signs and symptoms of heart failure, enabling a timelier diagnosis and ensuring people living with heart failure in Yorkshire and the Humber get the right treatment at the right time. Shannon has recently won a Special Recognition Award from the Pumping Marvellous Foundation Heart Failure Chairty for her dedication to improving the quality of lives of patients living with heart failure.