Dr. Shannon McCurdy received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She was an intern and resident in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and completed her clinical and research fellowships in oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and was previously an Assistant Professor at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. McCurdy holds American Board of Internal Medicine certification in internal medicine and medical oncology. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology, American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. She has served as an abstract reviewer and/or moderator at annual meetings including American Society of Hematology and the Tandem Meetings of ASBMT and CIBMTR. Dr. McCurdy has published her original research in Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Biology of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Haematologica, Leukemia, and Blood Advances. Dr. McCurdy is a reviewer for the American Journal of Hematology, Biology of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Clinical Chemistry, and Blood, among others. Her current research is on optimizing treatment strategies for older patients with hematologic malignancies with a special focus on allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation.