Shannon Moonah, MD, ScM

Shannon Moonah, MD, ScM, is a physician-scientist who cares for patients in both hospital and outpatient clinic settings. Dr. Moonah has a special scientific interest in intestinal health (infection, inflammation, & healing) and gut protozoa. His research is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Foundations such as the Robert Wood Johnson and Hartwell Foundations.

Dr. Moonah was born in Jamaica, and for his residency, he came to the U.S. to train at Howard University in Washington, D.C, which included clinical and research electives at the NIH. He completed graduate training in molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Research Institute, which was directed by Nobel Prize laureate Peter Agre, MD. Dr. Moonah followed this up by completing a four-year clinical and research-intensive NIH T32 fellowship program at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Moonah married his medical school classmate, Debbie-Ann Shirley, MD, MPH, who is the chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UF. They have two children. When he is not caring for patients or researching in the lab, he enjoys his son’s basketball and daughter’s track.