Shannon

Langston

MD

Shannon Langston, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has travelled extensively and has worked on emergency medicine projects in multiple countries. His current academic interests include EMS development in underdeveloped nations, international emergency medicine and military medicine. 

Dr. Langston grew up in North Carolina where he spent 12 years after high school as an EMT-Paramedic. While working as a paramedic, he graduated from East Carolina University with a BA in Anthropology. He graduated medical school from Ben Gurion University’s Medical School for International Health in Beersheva Israel in 2007. After completing a residency in emergency medicine at Wayne State University in 2010, he completed a fellowship in international emergency medicine at Vanderbilt.  

When he is not traveling, he enjoys cooking, gardening, photography, tending his small vineyard, and spending time with his wife and two dogs.