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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS Fellow Since 2021

Shannon Small, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Critical Care Med
  • Eastern Surg Soc
  • Assn of Women Surgeons
  • Assn for Acad Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Type of Practice

Hospital Based

General Surgery

Contact Information

Biography

Proud trauma/critical care surgeon, wife and mother to two young children

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • cholecystectomy
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • anal abscess
  • colostomy
  • esophagogastroduodenoscopy
  • ileostomy
  • laparoscopic colon surgery

Trauma/Injury Procedures

  • abdominal injuries
  • blunt trauma
  • bronchoscopy
  • chest injuries
  • cricothyroidotomy
  • intestine injuries
  • liver injury
  • stomach injuries
  • Trauma/Injury Procedures
  • wound debridement

Hospital Appointments

HSHS St. John's

Springfield, IL

Attending

08/2017—05/2019

Chippenham Hospital

Richmond, VA

Attending

06/2019—09/2020

South Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health

Bayshore, NY

Assistant Professor in Surgery

05/2021—09/2024

Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Yale New Haven Health

New London, CT

Assistant Professor in Surgery

01/2025—Present