Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon (September 9, 1953 – March 10, 2009) was an American pediatric toxicologist who specialized in the effect of toxins and poisonous substances in children. A dancer since his days in college, Shannon was known as the "dancing doctor".

Biography Shannon was born September 9, 1953. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He also worked in the associated poison control center. Shannon had also been the first African American to serve as a division chief at Children's Hospital Boston and had served as chief of both the emergency medicine and clinical pharmacology departments since being added to the staff of the hospital in 1983. and was taken to nearby Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. The immediate cause of death has not yet been determined. A resident of Brookline, Massachusetts, Dr. Shannon was 55 years old.

Family In addition to his wife, Shannon is survived by two children, son Evan and daughter Lila.