About
Specialties and Expertise
Specialties
- Radiology - Diagnostic
- Body Imaging
Expertise
- Abdominal Imaging
- Body Imaging - US/CT/MRI
- Breast Imaging
- Interventional Breast Imaging
- Breast Cancer Screening
- Mammography
- Mammogram
- Abnormal Mammogram
- Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
- Ultrasound
- Emergency Ultrasound
- Abdominal Ultrasound
- Gynecologic Ultrasound
- Pelvic Ultrasound
- Transvaginal Ultrasound
- Breast Ultrasound
- Breast Sonogram
- US Breast
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Breast MRI
- MRI of the Breast
- MRI Pelvis Female
- MRI Liver
- MRI of the Abdomen
- Fluoroscopy
- CT Scan of the Body
- CT Scan of the Abdomen
- Positron Emission Tomography
- PET-CT
- PET Scan
- Image Guided Biopsies
- Breast Biopsy
- Mammo Guided Stereotactic Biopsy of Breast
- Stereotactic Breast Core Biopsy
- Core Needle Biopsy of Breast
- Needle Localization of Breast
- Fine Needle Aspiration
- Ultrasound Guidance For Fine Needle Aspiration
- Ultrasound-Guided Breast Core Biopsy
- US Guided Needle Biopsy of Breast
- MR Guided Breast Biopsy
Biography
Shanon M. Connolly, M.D. is a board-certified radiologist specializing in Women’s Imaging and Body Imaging. She is Assistant Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Radiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Campus.
Dr. Connolly is a graduate of Kenyon College in Gambier, OH, earning her B.A degree, with Highest Honors in Biochemistry in 1996. She was Research Technician at Duke University Medical Center’s Center for AIDS Research from 1996 to 2000 and a Virology Analyst at Biogen, Inc. from 2000-2001. Dr. Connolly earned her M.D. degree, with Honors, from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H. in 2006.
After a transitional internship year at St. Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston, NJ), Dr. Connolly completed residency training (2007-2011) in Diagnostic Radiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Connolly then completed a Fellowship (2011-2012) in Breast and Body Imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Dr. Connolly achieved Board Certification Diagnostic Radiology from the American Board of Radiology in June 2011.
Dr. Connolly joined the full-time faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College as Assistant Professor of Radiology and Assistant Attending Radiologist at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Campus in August 2012.
Dr. Connolly is a member of the Weill Cornell radiology team located at NewYork-Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital which provides a full array of diagnostic radiologic services. Dr. Connolly’s clinical expertise is in Women’s Imaging and she interprets mammography, breast ultrasound, breast MRI, and performs breast procedures including stereotactic breast biopsies and image-guided breast biopsies (ultrasound and MRI). She also interprets body CT, body ultrasound, and body MRI.
Dr. Connolly is a member of several prestigious radiological societies listed below:
• Society for Breast Imaging
• American College of Radiology (ACR)
• Association of University Radiologists (AUR)
• Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
Research
Credentials
Board Certifications
- Radiology
Clinical and Academic Positions
- Assistant Attending Radiologist - NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology - Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
Education and Training
- M.D., Dartmouth Medical School, 2006
- B.A., Kenyon College, 1996
Insurance
Insurance Plans Accepted
The following represents most of the managed care plans accepted by this physician. If your insurance carrier does not appear here please contact the physician’s office as they may have individual contracts not included on this site.
* indicates this physician is no longer accepting new patients with this insurance plan.
- AETNA - HMO
- AETNA - Medicare
- AETNA - PPO
- Aetna - Weill Cornell - POS
- Aetna-NYP - EPO/POS
- Affinity Access
- Affinity Health Plan
- AgeWell New York
- Amida Care
- CIGNA
- Emblem Select Care
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - Blue Access
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - Blue Connection
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - EPO
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - HMO
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - Mediblue (Senior)
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - PPO
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield HealthPlus - CHP
- Fidelis Care
- GHI - CBP
- Health First
- Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP) - Medicaid
- Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP) - Medicare
- Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP)
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Oxford Health Plans - Medicare Advantage
- Oxford Health Plans - Metro/Core/Charter
- Oxford Health Plans - Liberty
- Oxford Health Plans - Freedom
- Rockefeller University - Trustmark
- United Empire
- United Healthcare
- United Healthcare - Community Plan
- United Healthcare - Medicare
- United Healthcare Compass
- VNSNY CHOICE - HMO
- VNSNY CHOICE - Medicare
- WellCare of NY