Shannon Coombs, MD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in June 2025. She grew up in Elmsford, New York before attending Howard University in Washington, DC where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History. There, she was inspired by her university’s motto of ‘Truth and Service’ to engage in service activism by working with a non-profit called LIFT-DC to help families break cycles of poverty. After college, she worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in South Korea teaching conversational English to high school students. Dr. Coombs took the lessons learned about service and communication to medical school at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Arizona-Florida. Dr. Coombs completed her internal medicine internship and residency at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital 2022-2025.
Education
- BA, History, minor in Biology: Howard University, Washington, DC (2016)
- Doctor of Medicine: Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine 2+2 Arizona-Florida (2022)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (2025)
Publications
Coombs S, Bui A, Mirzan HS, Robelin K, Garner HW, Krishna M, Cowart JB. Pyomyositis presenting as myonecrosis secondary to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2022 May 31;35(5):665-667.
Edwards MA, Coombs S, Spaulding A. Racial disparity in causes for readmission following bariatric surgery. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2022 Feb;18(2):241-252. Epub 2021 Oct 27.
Razavi AS, Chase ST, Coombs S, Kalish RB. (2019, Jul). Diagnostic accuracy of isolated clubfoot in twin compared to singleton gestations. Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 47(5), 564-567.
Razavi AS, Kalish RB, Coombs S., Chasen ST. (2017, Nov). Preterm Deliveries in triplet pregnancies, Published online, February 2017. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 30(21), 2596-2600.
Kalish R.B., Krantz D., Coombs S, Chasen ST. (2016, Jan). Between pregnancy biologic variability of nuchal translucency. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 214(1), S302-S303.
Presentations
Coombs S, Vegunta S, Buckner-Petty S, Gupta S, Pannala R. Pancreatic Cancer Education (PaCE) Project: Survey of Primary care Providers (PCPs) on Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Pancreatic cancer (PaC). American College of Gastroenterology. Poster Presentation. October 24, 2021. Las Vegas, NV.
Edwards MA, Coombs S, Spaulding A. “Racial disparity in causes for readmission following bariatric surgery”. American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery 2021 Annual Meeting Virtual. Paper Session 2. June 2021.
Coombs S, Bui A, Mirzan HS, Robelin K, Cowart JB. Pyomyositis in CLL Malignancy. First Annual SHM Florida Summit RIV Poster Competition. April 2021.
Coombs S. (2020, October 07). “Remembering December: Creating an Alliance through Gifts, Acts and Community Joy”. MCASOM Education Grand Rounds/Jacksonville, FL, USA. October 2020.
Coombs S. “In the Shadow of Frazier: E. Franklin Frazier and the Moynihan Report.” Faculty Advisor: Dr. Daryl Michael Scott. Paper Presented at Howard University Research Week, April 2016.
Coombs S. “Why do Triplet’s Deliver Early? “Principal Investigators: Dr. Armin Razavi and Dr. Robin B. Kalish. Presented at Traveler Summer Research Fellowship Program Research Day, August 2015.