Shannon Jennings
Tampa
Summary
Compassionate and skilled psychiatrist with background in providing quality mental health care in both clinical and hospital settings. Possesses strong diagnostic abilities and effective treatment planning skills, ensuring tailored approaches for diverse patient needs. Demonstrates capability in improving patient outcomes through innovative therapeutic methods and a collaborative approach to care coordination with interdisciplinary teams. Has actively contributed to enhancing the mental health well-being of communities through developing increased resources with the assistance of private and state hospital systems. Excels in psychiatric evaluation and crisis intervention. Shows empathy and enjoys being a team-player and mentor. Demonstrates creative problem-solving to effectively support patient needs. Excels at exercising patience and care toward others. Approachable, engages others easily, and actively listens to individual needs. Dedicated and adaptable professional with a proactive attitude and the ability to learn quickly. Strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Locum tenens Psychiatrist
O.S.F. St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Ottawa
10.2024 - Current
- Rounding on 2 adult inpatient units daily.
- Team leader for daily Treatment team meetings.
- Providing psychiatric consults to patients on medical floors.
- Taking call 24/7 for 7 days on/7 days off
- Reviewing patient packets for transfer from other facilities
- Peer to peer calls with ED physicians and insurance companies.
- Assisting with ER disposition and medical management for 3 hospital ER's in OSF hospital system.
Telepsychiatrist
Hakuna-Matata Telepsychiatry
Orlando
10.2024 - Current
- Providing ER and medical floor consults to Advent hospitals in Orlando area via remote Telehealth 24/7 as needed.. Assessing patients for need for Baker acts and providing recommendations for medications and disposition.
Locum tenens Psychiatrist
Chester Mental Health Center
Chester
12.2022 - 02.2025
- Providing psychiatric and medical care to forensic psychiatric patients (UST or NGRI), and civil patients at a maximum-security mental health center
- Provided coverage as stand-in Medical Director for meetings with other facilities and utilization review meetings in 2023
- Preparing court reports, petitions for court-enforced medications, and polypharmacy exemptions
- Worked as M.D on demand 16-hour overnight on-site for 288 male recipients
- Testifying in court in Randolph County courthouse for court-enforced medications, and for Forensic patients all over state of Illinois as needed
- Head psychiatrist for Health and Safety Committee
Independent Contractor
Elite Psychiatric Services, LLC
St. Louis
04.2007 - 12.2023
- I am the sole owner of this LLC established originally in St. Louis, Missouri; have had employees such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, billing and credentialing staff throughout the years for patients in various facilities throughput Florida, Illinois and Missouri over the years.
- Maintained my own malpractice- no claims made.
Telepsychiatrist
Qler Solutions, LLC
Reston
04.2022 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: Based In Reston, Virginia but covered many hospital ER's, inpatient unit rounding and medical floors in several states via Telehealth
- Based In Reston, Virginia and Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Provided Tele-health consults to hospital ER's and medical floors in several states throughout the U. S.
Psychiatrist-Outpatient TelePsychiatry
Burrell Behavioral Health
Springfield
03.2019 - 06.2022
- Company Overview: Providing care for patients via remote Telehealth in various clinics throughout Southwest and Central Missouri
- Provided inpatient weeknight and weekend night call coverage
- Holiday and weekend coverage for rounding on patients in inpatient unit and Acute crisis stabilization unit at Mercy hospital in Springfield, Missouri
- Providing care for patients via remote Telehealth in various clinics throughout Southwest and Central Missouri
Telepsychiatrist
Mindcare Solutions
08.2019 - 12.2021
- Providing ER and medical floor consults at hospitals in HCA system throughout Florida
- Rounded via telehealth on psychiatric inpatients at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri
Psychiatrist with House Staff Privileges
St. Anthony's Medical Center
St. Louis
04.2012 - 04.2019
- House-staff Psychiatrist with on-call duties for adult, child and adolescent, geriatric in-patients, IOP and POP programs. This hospital was bought out by Mercy Hospital Systems in 2019 and no longer exists.
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director & Hospitalist
St. Louis Regional Psychiatric Stabilization Center
St. Louis
10.2011 - 12.2014
- Psychiatrist for adult patients, on-site rounding and management of patients
- Took call 29 days/nights per month
- Helped to establish new start free-standing psychiatric hospital
- Assisted in writing bylaws and designing unit
- Was a member of Board of Directors with Regional Hospital Presidents
- Chair of peer review committee
- Assisted with hiring/firing other Psychiatrists
- Consulting Internists, in charge of accepting transfers from other ER's
- Training and collaborating with 6 nurse practitioners
- Hospital was taken over by BJC Barnes-hospital in 12/2014 when renewal of 3-year waiver for coverage of Medicaid patients was not approved by Governor of the state of Missouri and , therefore, had to become part of a large hospital system that included an ER. This hospital exists but was renamed when bought out by BJC system.
Psychiatric Hospitalist & Peer Review Committee Member
Gateway Regional Medical Center
Granite City
08.2008 - 11.2014
- Psychiatrist for child, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients
- Rounded daily and took call for 5-unit 100-inpatient psychiatry beds
- Worked as independent contractor at this hospital 2008-2013
- Assaulted by Schizophrenic patient here and this resulted in multiple injuries/surgeries, requiring me to be on shirt and then long-term disability for over 4 years.
Medical Director for Senior Renewal IOP program & Hospitalist
Christian Northeast Hospital
St. Louis
05.2007 - 06.2013
- Rounded on adult inpatients daily
- Did consults on medical floors
- Was Senior Renewal Intensive Outpatient Program Director
- Saw patients daily and led weekly meetings with staff
Psychiatric Director
Division of Youth Services
St. Louis
10.2007 - 06.2009
- Saw child/adolescent patients weekly
- Met with treatment team and director of cottages monthly
- 16 hours/month position
- Not employed, but given monthly stipend for Directorship as an independent contractor
Outpatient Clinical Psychiatrist
St. Louis
06.2007 - 10.2008
- Rented space in office building owned by a colleague psychiatrist to see patients on an outpatient basis 1 afternoon per week
House Staff Psychiatrist | Clinical Director of IOP program
SSM St. Mary's Hospital
St. Louis
12.2004 - 04.2008
House Staff Psychiatrist
SSM DePaul Hospital
St. Louis
12.2004 - 06.2007
Sub-Investigator for Clinical Research
Clinical Research Inc.
St. Louis
11.2004 - 04.2007
- Company Overview: Phase I-IV Clinical Trials
- Phase I-IV Clinical Trials
Independent Contractor
Long-Term Psychiatric Management, PC
St. Louis
05.2004 - 04.2007
- Saw patients in 100 nursing homes throughout state of Missouri
- Provided coverage for other psychiatrists in group at hospitals including Depaul and St
- Mary's in St
- Louis, Missouri
Physician - Fee Basis
Bay Pines VA Hospital
St. Petersburg
12.2001 - 10.2003
Physician - Fee Basis Performing Compensation and Pension Examinations
James A. Haley VA Hospital
Tampa
02.2001 - 10.2003
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University - Hazleton Campus
Hazleton
01.1995 - 08.1996
- Taught undergraduate Chemistry classes and Physical Chemistry classes to undergraduate students
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
Juniata College
Huntingdon
01.1994 - 06.1994
- Taught various laboratory classes to undergraduate college students
Education
PGY-4 year - Psychiatry
St. Louis University Hospital
St. Louis, MO10.2004
Internship and Residency Training - PGY 1-3
The University of South Florida - The Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL10.2003
M.D. -
The University of South Florida - The Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL06.2000
Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Chemical Physics
The Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA01.1995
Ph.D. - Chemical Physics
Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA01.1994
B.A. - Chemistry
The University of South Florida
Tampa, FL06.1990
Full Tennis Scholarship -
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN12.1988
PreMed -
Hillsborough Community College
Brandon, FL08.1987
Full Tennis Scholarship - PreMed/Biology
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL12.1986
Skills
- Quality : Practicing, enhancing, and monitoring quality patient care through self-assessment, supervising nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other physicians, leading peer review committees
- Leadership: Guiding and motivating medical teams, fostering collaboration, and implementing change
- Financial management skills :Understanding and managing the financial aspects of healthcare operations and developing templates, overseeing documentation consistent with Medicare/Medicaid standards for optimal billing and collections
- Regulatory compliance: Ensuring adherence to all relevant healthcare regulations with an emphasis on Medicare/Medicaid standards for billing Creative thinking with excellent diagnostic skills, implementing a psychosocial model approach, improving and maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of computers and Information Technology I have experience with several EMR’s, and am highly adaptable to new systems
- Administrative skills: Managing staff schedules, resource allocation, and operational processes
Affiliations
- American Board of Addiction Medicine
- Florida Psychiatric Society
- Association of Women Psychiatrists
- American Psychiatry Association
- American Medical Association
Certification
- Board Certified Psychiatrist and Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc., Presently active, expiring 2029. 09/2006-passed 1st attempt both written and oral exams, 2/2019 passed 10-year recertification exam 1st attempt, 12/2024-completed all requirements of article exam pathway.
- DEA-MATE completed training, 6/2024
- Suboxone MAT Waiver, first obtained in 2008
- USMLE Step III, 08/2001, passed 1st attempt
- USMLE Step II, 08/1999, passed first attempt
- USMLE Step I, 06/1998- passed first attempt
- Illinois, #036116552, 2006- Present
- Florida, #ME83760, 2000-Present
- Colorado, #DR.0062733, 2020-Present
- Maryland, 2021-Present
- Tennessee, 2021-Present
- Michigan, 2021-Present
- Iowa, 2021-Present
- Nebraska, 2022-Present
- Hawaii, 2025- Present
Research And Publications
Clinical research trials of Adult Schizophrenic and Bipolar patients, and patients with Dementia-Alzheimer's type, 2004, 2007, Clinical Research Incorporation, St. Louis, MO, Anxiety and Depression in isolated hospital patients, 1999, 2000, Direct Monte Carlo simulations of chemical reaction systems, 1990, 1995, Anxiety in hospitalized patients in resistant organisms isolation, Southern Medical Journal, 96, 2, 141-145, 2003, Catalano G, Houston SH, Catalano MC, Butera AS, Jennings SM, Direct Monte Carlo Simulation of Chemical Reaction Systems: Dissociation of Recombination, JChem Phys, 102, 7, 2812, 1995, Dunn SM, Anderson JB, Direct Monte Carlo Simulation of Chemical Reaction Systems: Intern of Energy Transfer and an Energy Dependent Unimolecular Reaction, J Chem Phys, 99, 6607, 1993, Dunn SM, Anderson JB, Direct Monte Carlo Simulation of Chemical Reaction Systems: A Lindemann - Christiansen Unimolecular Reaction, J Chem Phys Lett, 189, 95, 1992, Dunn SM, Anderson JB, Direct Monte Carlo Simulation of Chemical Reaction Systems: Simple Bimolecular Reactions, J Chem Phys, 95, 971, 1991, Dunn SM, Anderson JB
Hobbies Etc.
Water sports, swimming, triathlons, weighlifting, and home renovations.
Timeline
Locum tenens Psychiatrist
O.S.F. St. Elizabeth's Hospital
10.2024 - Current
Telepsychiatrist
Hakuna-Matata Telepsychiatry
10.2024 - Current
Locum tenens Psychiatrist
Chester Mental Health Center
12.2022 - 02.2025
Telepsychiatrist
Qler Solutions, LLC
04.2022 - 12.2022
Telepsychiatrist
Mindcare Solutions
08.2019 - 12.2021
Psychiatrist-Outpatient TelePsychiatry
Burrell Behavioral Health
03.2019 - 06.2022
Psychiatrist with House Staff Privileges
St. Anthony's Medical Center
04.2012 - 04.2019
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director & Hospitalist
St. Louis Regional Psychiatric Stabilization Center
10.2011 - 12.2014
Psychiatric Hospitalist & Peer Review Committee Member
Gateway Regional Medical Center
08.2008 - 11.2014
Psychiatric Director
Division of Youth Services
10.2007 - 06.2009
Outpatient Clinical Psychiatrist
06.2007 - 10.2008
Medical Director for Senior Renewal IOP program & Hospitalist
Christian Northeast Hospital
05.2007 - 06.2013
Independent Contractor
Elite Psychiatric Services, LLC
04.2007 - 12.2023
House Staff Psychiatrist | Clinical Director of IOP program
SSM St. Mary's Hospital
12.2004 - 04.2008
House Staff Psychiatrist
SSM DePaul Hospital
12.2004 - 06.2007
Sub-Investigator for Clinical Research
Clinical Research Inc.
11.2004 - 04.2007
Independent Contractor
Long-Term Psychiatric Management, PC
05.2004 - 04.2007
Physician - Fee Basis
Bay Pines VA Hospital
12.2001 - 10.2003
Physician - Fee Basis Performing Compensation and Pension Examinations
James A. Haley VA Hospital
02.2001 - 10.2003
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University - Hazleton Campus
01.1995 - 08.1996
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
Juniata College
01.1994 - 06.1994
PGY-4 year - Psychiatry
St. Louis University Hospital
Internship and Residency Training - PGY 1-3
The University of South Florida - The Morsani College of Medicine
M.D. -
The University of South Florida - The Morsani College of Medicine
Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Chemical Physics
The Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. - Chemical Physics
Pennsylvania State University
B.A. - Chemistry
The University of South Florida
Full Tennis Scholarship -
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
PreMed -
Hillsborough Community College
Full Tennis Scholarship - PreMed/Biology
The University of Alabama