Dr. Shannon Walker received undergraduate degrees in Biology and Microbiology from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA and attended medical school at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. She completed her pediatric residency, pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship, and transfusion medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. She is currently at Vanderbilt as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology with a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics. Clinically, she sees patients in the pediatric hematology clinic and on the transfusion medicine/blood bank service. She is the director of the Vanderbilt Benign Hematology Research Team and acts as the Vanderbilt principal investigator for various industry sponsored and investigator-initiated research studies. Her research focuses on pediatric hemostasis and thrombosis, predictive modeling, clinical trial design and execution, and hematology-related vaccine complications.