Dr. Shannon E. Perry is the Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, California. She got her diploma in nursing from St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing, Illinois; a baccalaureate in Nursing from Marquette University, an MSN from the University of Colorado Medical Center, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Child Development from Arizona State University. Dr. Perry completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in perinatal nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar. She has had clinical experience as a head nurse, staff nurse, and supervisor in surgical nursing, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics, and neonatal nursing. Shannon has taught in schools of nursing in several states for over 35 years and was the interim director and director of the School of Nursing and director of a Child and Adolescent Development baccalaureate program at SFSU.

Professor Perry is the co-author of Maternal Child Nursing Care, Maternity Nursing, and Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing and has authored numerous articles and chapters on maternal-newborn topics and the legal aspects of nursing.

Dr. Perry’s experience in international nursing includes teaching international nursing courses in Ireland, Italy, UK, Thailand, Ghana, and China and participating in health missions in Kenya, Ghana, and Honduras. She is participating in establishing a school of nursing in Kenya, has supported the establishment of the library, and has had a wing of a dormitory named after her.