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Dr. Anna Balabanova Shannahan

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine
Associate Director of Education at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern

About

Areas of Focus

  • Integrative medicine
  • Wellness and mind-body medicine
  • Primary care
  • Nutrition
  • Fitness
  • Lifestyle medicine
  • Medical education

Work/Research

  • Providing integrative medicine consultations to adults and children; combining Western and alternative therapies in an evidence-based way personalized for patients.
  • Created lectures and curriculums about integrative medicine
  • Creating programming for medical student, resident and physician wellness
  • Supervises family medicine residents in clinic

Career

Dr. Shannahan is currently the Drs. Pat & Carl Greer Distinguished Physician in Integrative Medicine and associate director of education at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. She also is an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at Northwestern. She served as chief resident in family medicine at Northwestern, and completed two fellowships in integrative medicine, with Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona and with the Osher Center.

​As an athlete who has completed 12 marathons and 9 triathlons, and a figure skating coach who earned a U.S. Figure Skating Association Gold Medal, she is passionate about nutrition, movement, helping others achieve their health goals and practicing what she preaches. 

She is heavily involved in advocacy on a local and national level, working to bring nutrition and cooking workshops to underserved areas. She maintains involvement in primary care on a national level with the American Academy of Family Physicians and currently serves as an elected board member of the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Shannahan also has completed a fellowship in wilderness medicine, and is a certified wilderness first responder.

In her free time, Dr. Shannahan loves spending time with friends and family, marathons and triathlons, yoga, figure skating, skiing, cooking, writing and anything outdoors in nature.