Shannon L. Bell, MD

Shannon L. Bell, MD, is a board-certified generalist obstetrician-gynecologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She is also Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Boston Medical Center. She became board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology in December 2016.

Dr. Bell joined the faculty of the Alan D. Solomont & Susan Lewis Solomont Clinical Simulation & Nursing Education Center as Associate Clinical Director in August 2015. She started designing simulations as a Chief Resident for Education at BMC, and runs summer simulation workshops as well as monthly simulations for OB/GYN resident didactics. In addition, Dr. Bell has incorporated simulation into the culture of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, instituting an interdisciplinary in situ simulation program which runs six hours of simulation per month on the labor and delivery unit at BMC and involves obstetricians, family medicine, midwifery, nursing, anesthesia, and consulting services, as appropriate to the scenario.

Her work additionally includes serving as the OB/GYN consultant for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Corrections, where she sees prenatal and gynecology patients at MCI-Framingham and South Middlesex. Her passion for helping others led her to develop and serve as course director for a correctional health elective for BUSM fourth-year medical students.

In 2017, Dr. Bell was accepted as a new member of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Simulations Working Group, which is “dedicated to the development and implementation of unique, standardized, and validated simulations-based curricula as an adjunct to improve residency education and clinical competence beyond residency.”

Dr. Bell’s interests include the role of simulation in quality improvement/patient safety projects and resident skill development, as well as the development of scenarios which not only support clinical and surgical excellence, but also help clinicians acknowledge and attend to patients’ social determinants of health as a major driver of health outcomes.